Saeed al - Masri Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al - Yazid ( مصطفى أحمد محمد عثمان أبو اليزيد ) , better known as Saeed al - Masri ( سعيد المصري ) or simply al - Masri ( المصري = the Egyptian ) , ( December 17 , 1955 – May 21 , 2010 ) was an Egyptian who was alleged to have acted as the financial chief for al - Qaeda . Along with Mahfouz Ould al - Walid and Saif al - Adel , al - Masri was believed to have opposed the September 11 attacks two months prior to their execution . He was killed in a targeted killing drone airstrike in Pakistan on May 21 , 2010 . In Pakistan . He was initially arrested among hundreds of others following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981 . He was imprisoned for three years in Egypt , and shortly after he joined Egyptian Islamic Jihad , and in 1988 went to Afghanistan . He had two wives and several sons and daughters , including one married to the son of Sheikh Omar Abd al - Rahman . As of 1991 , al - Masri was working as the financial chief for al - Qaeda , running the " Mektabh al - Muhassiba " ( accounting office ) in Peshawar . He was alleged to have appointed Ibrahim al - Qosi as his deputy to handle money destined for NGO projects . In the Sudan . al - Masri set up a financial office on McNimr Street in Khartoum on June 9 , 1993 , from where he managed al - Qaeda ' s payroll . al - Fadl aided al - Masri until he was replaced by Abu Dijana al - Yemeni and Abdallah Lubnani . After receiving his pilot license , L ' Houssaine Kherchtou returned to the Sudan in December 1995 , but was appalled to find that his wife , heavily pregnant and in need of $ 500 for a cesarean section , was begging on the streets for money to allow her entrance to Khartoum ' s general hospital . Kherchtou went to al - Masri and asked him to cover his wife ' s medical bills , and was upset upon being informed there was no money to spare and al - Masri suggested he take her to a Muslim charitable hospital for free treatment . He angrily demanded to know " if it was your wife or your daughter , you would take her there " , and later recounted that he was angry enough to have shot al - Masri if he had had a gun at the time . Return to Pakistan , claims of death . In May 2007 , al - Masri released a video promising Americans that al - Qaeda troops had been training through the winter and were ready to begin a fresh summer offensive in Afghanistan . In December , al - Masri was said to have claimed responsibility for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto , telling Adnkronos International that " we terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat mujahideen " . The Asia Times Online also reported that it had received a claim of responsibility from al - Masri by telephone . al - Masri allowed himself to be interviewed on Geo Television in July 2008 following the Danish embassy bombing , which he claimed were carried out by a Saudi follower of al - Qaeda . Pakistan ' s DAWN reported him killed on August 13 , 2008 in an airstrike in Bajaur . Tehrik - i - Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar , himself captured five days after the attack , denied the claim that al - Masri had been killed . Others suggested that the report of his death was a Pakistani attempt to refute recent American accusations that sections of the ISI were still assisting al - Qaeda . On February 9 , 2009 the Indian government received a video from al - Yazid in which he reiterated the promise of Pakistani retaliation if India launched a first strike . This video took everyone by surprise as he was presumed to be dead . Confirmed Death . He was reported as having been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan on May 21 , 2010 along with his wife , three daughters and granddaughter . His death was confirmed by US officials and al - Qaeda .