Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri (Arabic: ابراهيم حسن طالي العسيري; April 18 or 19, 1982 – 2017) was a citizen of Saudi Arabia suspected of being chief bomb-maker of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
On August 27, 2009, Abdullah blew himself up at the Jeddah palace of Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of the Interior prince Mohammed bin Nayef, in attempt to assassinate him after posing as a repentant militant.
[11] He was a likely suspect due to his history of creating explosive devices using PETN, including his involvement in the failed Christmas Day bomb plot.
[17][18] In September 2011, al-Asiri was reported to have possibly been killed by a drone strike together with other AQAP suspects, including American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
[23][24] Al-Asiri appeared in a 2016 video making references to Saudi Arabia's recent executions of al-Qaeda militants, thus confirming that he remained alive.
[26] Writing in The Washington Post, Michael J. Morell, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said that, if confirmed, "he would be the most significant international terrorist removed from the battlefield since Osama bin Laden.