Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri

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Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri
علي سيد محمد مصطفى البكري
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Al-Qaeda suspect
photo from US State Department
Born (1966-04-18) 18 April 1966 (age 57) [1]
Nationality Egyptian
Other namesAbd al-Aziz al-Masri

Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri (Arabic : علي سيد محمد مصطفى البكري) alias Abd al-Aziz al-Masri (Arabic : عبد العزيز المصري, born 18 April 1966 in Bani Suwayf, Egypt) is an Egyptian member of the Shura Council of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, [2] from which he migrated to al-Qaeda, along with Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Bakri is at large, and the United States Department of State is offering up to US$5 million for information about his location. [1] The State Department wanted poster reads:

Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri is an al-Qaida member and an explosives and chemical weapons expert. He is a member of the al-Qaida Shura council and is a close associate of al-Qaida leaders Saif al-Adel and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Prior to joining al-Qaida, al-Bakri was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, under the direction of Ayman al-Zawahiri. He served as an instructor in al-Qaida's camps in Afghanistan, providing terrorist recruits with training in the use of explosives and chemical weapons. Al-Bakri also unsuccessfully attempted to hijack a Pakistani Air passenger flight in December 2000. It is likely that he continues to train al-Qaida terrorists and other extremists.

For his membership in al-Qaeda, al-Bakri (under the surname Bakri) is under a worldwide embargo by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267. [3] The UN entry about him, from 2005, says that al-Bakri may be in Iran.[ citation needed ]

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