November 14–16, 2001 (aged 56–57)[2] Kabul, Afghanistan
Allegiance
al-Qaeda
Rank
Military Commander
Battles/wars
Soviet-Afghan War
Battle of Jaji
United States invasion of Afghanistan
Fall of Kabul †
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 an Egyptian miltant and 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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^Potomac Books, Through Our Enemies Eyes, p. 95.
^ abRaman, 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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MohammedAtef (Arabic: محمد عاطف, romanized: Muḥammad ʿĀṭif; born Sobhi Abd Al Aziz Mohamed El Gohary Abu Sitta, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri and al-Khabir;...
early 1999, bin Laden approved Mohammed to go forward with organizing the plot. Mohammed, bin Laden, and MohammedAtef, bin Laden's deputy, held a series...
Palestinian politician and diplomat Atef Abu Saif (born 1973), Palestinian writer Atef Adwan (born 1950), Palestinian politician Atef Bseiso (1948–1992), Palestine...
Arab Emirates to find work. According to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden or MohammedAtef identified Hanjour at an Afghanistan training camp as...
the son of Osama and Najwa, married the daughter of al-Qaeda leader MohammedAtef in January 2001, at Kandahar, Afghanistan, with footage broadcast by...
Pakistan. After they arrived, they were selected by al-Qaeda leader MohammedAtef as suitable candidates for the "planes operation" plot. They were all...
to: Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi, a Muslim scholar of 11th/12th century MohammedAtef (Abu Hafs al-Masri), past military chief of al-Qaeda Umar I of Crete...
I get to meet him. Prosecutors also allege Hicks was interviewed by MohammedAtef, an al-Qaeda military commander, about his background and "the travel...
the five was five videos they had produced, found in the rubble of MohammedAtef's destroyed home outside Kabul, Afghanistan. By 2006, more than four...
members. The following year he was sent to Mombasa, Kenya with money from MohammedAtef to purchase himself a 7-tonne trawler and start a fishing business....
citizenship on him, as well as bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Saif al-Adel and MohammedAtef. Sued Deutsche, In der Trutzburg des sanften Scheichs, September 23...
time of 10:13.: 62 Before the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, and MohammedAtef developed a list of potential targets. Bin Laden wanted...
travelled to Afghanistan and presented the plan to Al Qaeda's leaders. MohammedAtef, a close aide of Osama bin Laden, gave JI the go-ahead for the attack...
spring of 1999, involving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, and his deputy MohammedAtef. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wanted to hit the World Trade Center...
Pakistan, Bin 'Attash prepared a written report and briefed KSM and MohammedAtef (the military commander of al Qaeda) on airline security and his ability...
along with Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, MohammedAtef, Jamal al-Fadl, Wael Hamza Julaidan, and Mohammed Loay Bayazid and eight others, to discuss the...
Saad and Mohammed. His son Mohammed Babrak bin Laden (born c. 1983) married the daughter of the former al-Qaeda military chief MohammedAtef (also called...
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