Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid, better known as Saeed al-Masri or simply al-Masri, was an Egyptian who was alleged to have acted as the financial chief for al-Qaeda.
11 Facts About Saeed al-Masri
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Saeed al-Masri was killed in a targeted killing drone airstrike in Pakistan on May 21,2010.
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Saeed al-Masri was initially arrested among hundreds of others following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981.
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Saeed al-Masri was imprisoned for three years in Egypt, and shortly after he joined Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and in 1988 went to Afghanistan.
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Saeed al-Masri was alleged to have appointed Ibrahim al-Qosi as his deputy to handle money destined for NGO projects.
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Kherchtou went to Saeed al-Masri and asked him to cover his wife's medical bills, and was upset upon being informed there was no money to spare and Saeed al-Masri suggested he take her to a Muslim charitable hospital for free treatment.
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Saeed al-Masri angrily demanded to know "if it was your wife or your daughter, you would take her there", and later recounted that he was angry enough to have shot al-Masri if he had had a gun at the time.
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In May 2007, Saeed al-Masri released a video promising Americans that al-Qaeda troops had been training through the winter and were ready to begin a fresh summer offensive in Afghanistan.
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Tehrik-i-Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar, himself captured five days after the attack, denied the claim that Saeed al-Masri had been killed.
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Saeed al-Masri was reported as having been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan on May 21,2010, along with his wife, three daughters and granddaughter.
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Saeed al-Masri's death was confirmed by US officials and al-Qaeda.