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Mohammed Atef محمد عاطف | |
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 Atef in Afghanistan on May 26, 1998 | |
| Nickname(s) | |
| Born | 1944[2][a] Monufia Governorate, Egypt[2] |
| Died | November 14–16, 2001 (aged 56–57)[2] Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Allegiance |  al-Qaeda |
| Rank | Military Commander |
| Battles/wars | |
Mohammed Atef (Arabic: محمد عاطف, romanized: Muḥammad ʿĀṭif; born Sobhi Abd Al Aziz Mohamed El Gohary Abu Sitta,[2][5] also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri and al-Khabir; 1944 – November 2001) was the prominent military chief of al-Qaeda, and a deputy of Osama bin Laden, although Atef's role in the organization was not well known by intelligence agencies for years.[2] He was killed in a US airstrike in November 2001.
Atef served two years in the Egyptian Air Force and became an agricultural engineer.[2][6] He was also a police officer and a member of the group Egyptian Islamic Jihad before he moved to Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion,[1] while operating from Peshawar.[7] He has been credited as having convinced Abdullah Azzam to abandon his life and devote himself to preaching jihad at this time.[7]
Atef was sent to an Afghan training camp where he met Ayman al-Zawahiri, who later introduced him to Osama bin Laden.[2]
He attended two meetings from August 11 to 20 in 1988, along with bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, Jamal al-Fadl, Wa'el Hamza Julaidan, and Mohammed Loay Bayazid and eight others, to discuss the founding of "al-Qaeda".[8] Bin Laden later sent a letter to Mohammed Loay Bayazid informing him that Atef and Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri were to each be given 6,500 Saudi riyals monthly, the same as they had been given for their work in Maktab al-Khidamat.[9]
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- ^ "Mohammed Atef". Counter Extremism Project.
- ^ "Security Council committee approves correction of identifying information of fifty-three individuals, ten entities on consolidated list". United Nations. 6 December 2004.
- ^ Potomac Books, Through Our Enemies Eyes, p. 95.
- ^ a b Raman, B. South Asia Analysis Group, "USA's Afghan Ops" Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, November 20, 2001
- ^ Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower, 2006. pp. 131-134
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