Saeed al-Masri

Mustafa Ahmad Muhammad Uthman Abu al - Yazid (Arabic: مصطفى أحمد محمد عثمان أبو اليزيد, DMG Mustafa Aḥmad Muḥammad ʿ Uthman Abū l - Yazīd; often referred to as Abu al - Yazid reproduced) also Sheik Saeed al -Masri also Saeed ( سعيد المصري DMG Sa ʿ īd al -Masri; * December 1955 in Egypt, † May 22, 2010 near Miranshah in Waziristan ) was an Egyptian terrorist and senior leader of al-Qaeda organization.

Yazid was arrested in 1981 in Egypt because of involvement in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat for three years along with Ayman Al -Zawahiri. After his release, he joined the Arab fighters in Afghanistan and from there followed Osama bin Laden after Operation Desert Storm in 1991 in the Sudan. Abu al - Yazid was a close confidant of bin Laden and later also of Taliban leader Mullah Omar. He was one of the founding members of Al -Qaeda and was in returning to Afghanistan in 1996 Chief Financial Officer of the group. In this role, he is said to have contributed to the implementation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York, although he did not with respect to the attacks bin Laden coincided.

Abu al - Yazid was officially presented on 26 May 2007, on the website of a jihadist organization as a leader of Al- Qaeda operations in Afghanistan and widespread in the following years, numerous video messages on behalf of the network. In June 2009, he was a reporter for the television station Al Jazeera an interview in which he declared, among other things, Al - Qaeda would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons against the United States even if they could gain control over it. Nearly three years after his appointment, Abu al - Yazid was killed in a drone attack by the U.S. armed forces. His successor a short time later appointed his Egyptian compatriot Sheikh Fateh al -Masri.