Basil Hassan (born 1987) is a Danish external operations plotter for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
In 2013, Hassan was accused of attempting to shoot Lars Hedegaard, a 70-year old Danish author and journalist.
After being arrested in Turkey in 2014, he was released as part of an alleged exchange for 49 hostages held by the ISIL.
[1] He was in 2020 reported to be the mastermind of a failed attempt to blow up a long distance airliner, in what was later cited as the most ingenious ISIS terror project.
[2] Hassan grew up in Greve, Denmark, where he lived until he moved with his family to Nørrebro in Copenhagen around 2000.