The United States has announced a financial reward of up to $5 million for information about a prominent Egyptian leader of Al Qaeda organization Ibrahim al-Banna, who lives in Yemen. He said he was receiving orders from the organization’s leadership in Iran.
The US State Department said in a tweet on the Twitter account “Rewards for Justice ” Thursday that” Ibrahim Al-Banna, a leader and founding member of the leadership of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and an obedient “hirel to the leaders of his Iran-based organization,” added, “This terrorist has left his place, Land, Egypt, to wreak havoc in Yemen and its people.”
ابراهيم البنا عضو في قيادة #تنظيم_القاعدة_في_شبه_الجزيرة_العربية، وأجير مطيعا لقادة تنظيمه المتمركزون في #إيران.
بلغ عن هذا الإرهابي الذي ترك بلده #مصر ليعيث خرابا في #اليمن واهله.
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— Rewards for Justice عربي (@Rewards4Justice) July 7, 2021
Who is he?
The information also suggests that Ibrahim al-Banna, also known as Abu Ayman al-Masri, is a member of the leadership of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and serves as security leader for the Group works.
He was a founding member of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and gave military and security instructions to the leadership of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He is the founder of the al-Qaeda secret service, and the in is primarily responsible for many operations in Yemen and in the world’s terror provoked, starting with the bombing of the destroyer Cole aiming at the US embassy in Sanaa in 2008 through to the operation of the military base in Florida.
1993 in Yemen
According to media sources, Ibrahim al-Banna fled in 1993 in Yemen in order to avoid the persecution of the Egyptian police after members of the organization “Islamic Jihad” and “Vanguard of the Conquest” in 1992. Then he switched to the “Al-Qaeda” organization after its leader founded it, Osama bin Laden.
In addition, he was responsible for the media wing of the so-called “Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula” and is considered the most important founder of the “Al-Qaeda” branch on the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen.
In October 2011, the US Department of Defense announced the Assassination of Ibrahim Al-Banna along with six others known, and the Yemeni government confirmed his murder before the U.S. government gave the News of his assassination, withdrew him from the US State Department, and set a reward of $5 million for information about him.
