Abu Yahya al-Libi

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Abu Yahya al-Libi

Abu Yahya al-Libi ( Arabic أبو يحيى الليبي, DMG Abū Yaḥyā al-Lībī ; also Abu Yahia al-Libi or Abu Jahja al-Libi ; * January 1, 1963 in Libya ; † June 4, 2012 in Pakistan ) was a Libyan terrorist. In the hierarchy of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda , he was considered "number two" after Aiman ​​al-Zawahiri after the death of Osama bin Laden .

Life

The exact place of origin of Abu Yahya al-Libi is unknown. First, he joined in the early 1990s as a member of the mainly in eastern Libya operating Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in appearance. He later went to Mauritania for five years , where he studied Islamic law ( Sharia ) at a Koran school . He is said to have married a Mauritanian there, with whom he has several children. After completing his studies, he went to Afghanistan , where he received military training in an al-Qaeda training camp.

After the US occupation of Afghanistan , he was arrested in Pakistan in early 2002 and handed over to the US armed forces, but in July 2005 he was able to escape from the US military prison Bagram with three other prisoners . For clues that should lead to his re-arrest, American authorities had advertised a bounty of US $ 1 million.

In the years after his successful escape, Abu Yahya al-Libi rose to the ranks of the terrorist organization. He was considered a scholar within al-Qaeda and represented the organization in numerous video messages as an ideological spokesman; in the years before his death he had significantly more appearances than other leading figures such as B. bin Laden or al-Zawahiri.

His older brother Abu Idris al-Libi is one of the leading figures of the Libyan Islamic Combat Group and is said to be in the Benghazi area. Due to the civil war in Libya , there was speculation that Abu Yahya might have returned to North Africa from Afghanistan or Pakistan.

According to Pakistani intelligence, al-Libi was killed along with 14 other people early in the morning on June 4, 2012, in a drone attack on a camp in the village of Hassu Khel, south of Mir Ali in North Waziristan . This information has been confirmed by the US government.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b USA: Profile Abu Yahya al-Libi. Archived from the original on June 8, 2012 ; accessed on December 18, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c Camille Tawil: Libyan poised to succeed bin Laden. In: Magharebia . May 18, 2011, accessed May 24, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Craig Whitlock, Munir Ladaa: Al-Qaeda's New Leadership. In: Washington Post. 2006, accessed May 25, 2011 .
  4. ^ NEFA Foundation: Dossier Libyan Islamic Fighting Group ( Memento of October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), October 2007
  5. ↑ Christopher Boucek: Dangerous Fallout from Libya's Implosion. In: Carnegie Endowment . March 11, 2011, accessed March 12, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Pittsburgh Post Gazette June 5, 2012
  7. ↑ US kills al-Qaeda number two by drone Die Welt Online, June 5, 2012
  8. ↑ Washington confirms death of al-Qaeda number two , Spiegel Online , June 5, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Libi, Abu Yahya al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Libi, Abu Yahia al-; أبي يحيى الليبي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan terrorist, senior member of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Libya
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 2012
Place of death Pakistan