I forgot about him, one of the originals born in Egypt.

Unofficially, Saif al-Adel is known to have taken the reins, but AQ’s handling of the transition has been rather embarrassing. The group is hiding his status due in part to the fact that he is currently based in Iran, a supposed ideological rival of AQ. Moreover, disclosing the activities that he and the rest of the leadership circle are conducting in Afghanistan would contradict the group’s Taliban partners, who have continually gaslighted the international community by claiming that AQ has no presence there.

Remember.

By the early nineties, Saif is thought to have then traveled to southern Lebanon with Abu Talha al-Sudani, Saif al-Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri, and Abu Salim al-Masri, where they trained alongside Hezbollah Al-Hejaz