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Abu Ayyub al-Masri

1968 - 2010

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Abu Ayyub al-Masri ( AH-boo ah-YOOB ahl MAHSS-ree; أَبُو أَيُّوبَ ٱلْمَصْرِيُّ, ʾAbū ʾAyyūb al-Maṣrī, translation: "Father of Ayyub the Egyptian"; 1967 – 18 April 2010), also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (; أَبُو حَمْزَةَ ٱلْمُهَاجِرِ ʾAbū Ḥamzah al-Muhāǧir, translation: "Father of Hamza the immigrant"), born Abdel Moneim Ezz El-Din Ali Al-Badawi (Arabic: عبد المنعم عز الدين علي البدوي), was an Egyptian militant leader who became the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during the Iraqi insurgency, following the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in June 2006. He was appointed as the "minister of war" of the Islamic State of Iraq from 2006 to 2010 and prime minister of the Islamic State of Iraq from 2009 to 2010. He was killed along with ISI's leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi during a raid on their safehouse on 18 April 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abu Ayyub al-Masri is the 181st most popular extremist (up from 203rd in 2019), the 406th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 465th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Egyptian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Abu Ayyub al-Masri ranks 181 out of 283. Before him are Stefano Delle Chiaie, Jonathan Wild, Viktor Bout, Joaquin Murrieta, Ahmad Sa'adat, and Perkin Warbeck. After him are Louis Farrakhan, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Dean Corll, Radislav Krstić, Yigal Amir, and Béla Kiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Abu Ayyub al-Masri ranks 101. Before him are Traci Lords, Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Mari Kiviniemi, Toni Kukoč, Jana Novotná, and Daniel Dae Kim. After him are Paul Scheuring, Oleg Deripaska, Rosalinda Celentano, Gary Coleman, Emma Wiklund, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Among people deceased in 2010, Abu Ayyub al-Masri ranks 176. Before him are Pernell Roberts, Theo Albrecht, Bobbejaan Schoepen, Farooq Leghari, Tom Bosley, and Armand Razafindratandra. After him are Brian G. Marsden, Allan Sandage, Larry Evans, Alan Sillitoe, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, and Egon Klepsch.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Abu Ayyub al-Masri ranks 406 out of 642. Before him are An-Nasir Hasan (1334), Ibrahim Mahlab (1949), Malak Hifni Nasif (1886), Pishoy (320), Farag Foda (1946), and Pope Maximus of Alexandria (250). After him are Isidore of Alexandria (450), Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam (1893), Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (1923), Al-Mansur Abu Bakr (1321), Atef Ebeid (1932), and Al-Mustamsik (null).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Egypt

Among extremists born in Egypt, Abu Ayyub al-Masri ranks 5. Before him are Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), Mohamed Atta (1968), Saif al-Adel (1960), and Omar Abdel-Rahman (1938).

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