Mohammed Atef

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Mohammed Atef

Mohammed Atef ( Arabic محمد عاطف, DMG Muḥammad ʿĀṭif ; * 1944 in Menufiya / Egypt ; † November 16, 2001 in Kabul ) was a leading head of the Egyptian terrorist organization al-Jihad and a high-ranking member of the Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda . He was killed by a US drone during the US invasion of Afghanistan and is the first known victim of a drone attack worldwide.

Atef held a post within the Egyptian police force. He was imprisoned in 1981 for his involvement in the assassination attempt on Anwar al-Sadat . In the early 1990s he joined Al Qaeda bin Laden with Aiman ​​al-Zawahiri . He served in the organization as the coordinator for armed operations. He was accused of being instrumental in planning the 9/11 attacks and the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam . US agencies also suspected that he had been involved in sending fighters to Somalia . These are said to have supported Somali militias at the Battle of Mogadishu , who fought against US troops and blue helmet soldiers. The Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid , however, denied having received help from al-Qaeda.

He also had close family relationships with bin Laden. In December 2000, three months after the attack on the US destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) , he married his daughter to a son of bin Laden.

Atef was killed on November 16, 2001 in a suburb of Kabul by an AGM-114 Hellfire missile shot down by an MQ-1 Predator drone .

Atefs pseudonyms were Abu Hafs, Abu Hafs al-Masri, Abu Hafs al-Masri al-Khabir, Taysir, Sheikh Taysir Abdullah and Abu Khadijah.

References

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Lehmacher: Drones - Death from the Air. (No longer available online.) In: webstory.zdf.de. ZDF, July 2015, archived from the original on July 28, 2015 ; accessed on July 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / webstory.zdf.de
  2. ↑ Jason Burke: Al-Qaeda , Penguin Books, London 2003, p. 76.
  3. ↑ Burke 2003, p. 149.
  4. ↑ Burke 2003, pp. 148f.
  5. ↑ Burke 2003, p. 213.
  6. ↑ Burke 2003, p. 259
  7. ↑ Editor: Biography: Mohammed Atef. (No longer available online.) In: onze-septembre.com. Archived from the original on July 28, 2015 ; Retrieved July 28, 2015 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onze-septembre.com

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SURNAME Atef, Mohammed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abu Hafs; Abu Hafs al Masri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Menufiya, Egypt
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2001
Place of death Kabul