Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri

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Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri ( Arabic إبراهيم حسن العسيري, DMG Ibrāhīm Ḥasan al-ʿAsīrī ; * April 18, 1982 ) is a suspected Saudi Arabian terrorist. He is also known by the alias "Abu Saleh".

Al-Asiri was born in 1982 in southern Saudi Arabia on the border with Yemen and comes from a military family. When he wanted to travel to Iraq to fight the American occupation forces, he was arrested by the Saudi authorities and, according to his own statements, continued to radicalize himself in custody. After their release, he and his brother Abdullah went into hiding in 2007, only to reappear a little later in Yemen. According to the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry, he joined al-Qaeda and was involved in a series of attacks that the terrorist network carried out between 2003 and 2006. He is currently considered one of the most wanted terrorists in Saudi Arabia and is believed to be in Yemen. According to US security expert Pat Ryan, he is an expert in explosives and bomb construction for the al-Qaida offshoot on the Arabian Peninsula .

The first bomb he built was supposed to kill the Saudi Arabian intelligence chief Mohammed ibn Naif on August 27, 2009 . It was brought by his brother Abdallah, who pretended to surrender and detonated the bomb hidden in his underpants at the meeting. Abdallah died in the attack, but Mohammed ibn Naif survived. Al-Asiri is also said to be responsible for an attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 and the dispatch of package bombs from Yemen in November 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Binder: Despite drone attacks, Al-Qaeda's bomb brain continues to work. In: derstandard.at . June 18, 2015, accessed June 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c Karim El-Gawhary : Chaotic conditions in Sanaa. In: the daily newspaper . November 1, 2010, accessed November 3, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Asiri under increasing suspicion tv n from 1 November 2010
  4. ↑ Karim El-Gawhary: The Bomb Maker. In: the daily newspaper . November 2, 2010, accessed November 3, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Asiri, Ibrahim Hassan al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES إبراهيم حسن العسيري (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION alleged Saudi Arabian bomb maker
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Saudi Arabia