Ibrahim al-Banna

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Ibrahim al-Banna
إبراهيم البنا
Born1965 (age 58–59)[1]
Egypt
NationalityEgyptian
Other names
  • Abu Ayman al-Masri
  • Ibrahim Muhammad Salih al-Banna
Occupation
Jihadist
Known forSuspected of being an Al Qaeda intelligence chief

Ibrahim Muhammad Salih al-Banna (

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).[2][3]
Security officials have repeatedly claimed to have killed him with missiles launched from unmanned aerial vehicles. An October 2011 claim had al-Banna killed, along with six other individuals, including some who were alleged to have been associated with AQAP and at least one (
Rewards for Justice wanted list on October 14, 2014.[6][1]

Background

According to the Jamestown Foundation, Yemeni security officials apprehended al-Banna in August 2010 and a Yemeni newspaper published transcripts of his interrogation in November 2010.[3] The Jamestown Foundation published a profile of al-Banna based on those transcripts. The profile claimed that his full name was "

Shaykh
Ibrahim Muhammad Salih al-Banna" and his kunya was Abu Ayman al-Masri. They asserted that during his confession he acknowledged he was a member of
Atif Sidqi
. Ibrahim al-Banna had escaped to Yemen where he was a member of a group led by brothers Ayman al-Zawahiri and Muhammad al-Zawahiri.

According to the Jamestown profile, al-Banna acknowledged he had trained

Abd al-Mun’im bin Izz al-Din al-Badawi in intelligence.[3]
Al-Badawi was to become head of intelligence for
Al Qaeda in Iraq
.

The Jamestown's profile challenged several aspects of the admissions in al-Banna's interrogation.[3] They challenged the credibility of his claim that AQAP main source of weapons was a warlord in

Sunnis
.

False death reports

Ibrahim al-Banna was reportedly killed by gunmen from the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement in Syria on February 15, 2018,[7][8] which was later proven to be false.

Since the U.S. has not confirmed al-Banna's death, he remains the subject of a $5 million USD bounty by the Rewards for Justice Program.[1][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Rewards for Justice - Wanted for Terrorism - Ibrahim al-Banna". Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  2. ^ "Top Al Qaeda official killed in Yemen". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2011-10-15. Archived from the original on 2013-03-12. Al-Banna was "in charge of the media arm of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" and was one of the group's "most dangerous operatives," it added.
  3. ^ a b c d "Former AQAP intelligence chief describes Egyptian role in al-Qaeda". Jamestown Foundation. 2010-11-24. Archived from the original on 2013-10-22. A Kuwaiti daily recently published a transcript of the interrogation of Shaykh Ibrahim Muhammad Salih al-Banna (a.k.a. Abu Ayman al-Masri), the Egyptian former intelligence chief of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) who was arrested in early August
  4. Esquire magazine. Archived from the original
    on 2013-01-28. It was initially reported that an Al Qaeda leader named Ibrahim al-Banna was among those killed, but then it was reported that al-Banna is still alive to this day.
  5. ^ Mark Mazzetti; Charlie Savage; Scott Shane (March 9, 2013). "How a U.S. Citizen Came to Be in America's Cross Hairs". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-09-29. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
  6. ^ United States Department of State
  7. ^ "Abu Ayman al-Masri killed". almanar.com.lb. 2021-02-20.
  8. ^ "About 10 days after the assassination of one of the commanders of al-Qaeda organization, a Syrian commander of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham is assassinated • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights". The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights. 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  9. ^ Team, Editorial (2021-07-08). "$ 5 million for information on an al-Qaeda leader". Asume Tech. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
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