Announced for death repeatedly in the past, Abu Iyadh, founder of Ansar Achariaâ, he, this time, was really killed?
The French army had announced, in fact, having eliminated a dozen leaders of the terrorist organization of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), on February 21, 2019 after a helicoptered operation of the French forces in Bou Djebeha, about 125 km north of Timbuktu (Mali).
In a recording dated at the end of February 2020, the chief of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi), Abdelmalek Droudekel alias Abdelwadoud, confirmed the death of Seifallah ben Hassine, alias Abou Iyadh, as well as several commanders of Aqmi, including Djamel Okacha, alias Yahia Abou Hamman, reports “Le Monde” in its edition of this Wednesday, March 4, 2020.
In an audio message of approximately 34 minutes broadcast recently, Abdelmalek Droudekel, indeed praised his brothers in arms Abou Iyadh and Yahia Abu Hamman, thus confirming their death!