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MEMRI is republishing, following the July 31, 2022 killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, two archival MEMRI JTTM reports by MEMRI senior analyst Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli.
Founder of al-Qaida with Osama bin Laden who went on to succeed him as its leader
SHARE The British government can’t strip an Egyptian extremist of refugee status despite his links to the murder of a leading anti-Taliban commander two days before the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, a UK court ruled. Judges this week rebuffed Home Secretary Priti Patel’s efforts to cut the UK residency rights of Yasser Al Siri, who faces the death penalty in his native Egypt but has lived in Britain since claiming asylum in 1994. The removal of his refugee status would have ended Mr Al Siri’s right to an unlimited stay in the UK, where he has been labelled a threat ...
SHARE Britain repeatedly turned down Egyptian requests to extradite an extremist sheltering in London who was later linked to the murder of a leading anti-Taliban commander two days before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, newly-released documents from the 1990s show. Yasser Al Sirri applied for political asylum in the UK in April 1994, the month after he was sentenced to death in his native Egypt for his alleged involvement in a failed bombing targeting then prime minister Atef Sidqi. British government documents from the 1990s released on Wednesday show that Egyptian authorities re...