| Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari يونس محمد ابراهيم الحياري | |
| Birth Date: | 1969 |
| Death Date: | 3 July 2005 |
| Birth Place: | Morocco |
| Death Place: | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Serviceyears: | 1992–2005 |
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Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari (1969 –) was a Moroccan Al-Qaeda member.
During the 1990s, he fought in Bosnia. He was top on Saudi Arabia's list[1] of 36 "most wanted terrorist suspects" published on 28 June 2005. He who was reported killed in a shootout with Saudi Arabian security officials on July 3, 2005.[2] [3] [4] The gunfight took place in Riyadh. At the time of his death, he was described as the head of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The Saudi statement says that al-Hayari travelled to Saudi Arabia on Hajj in 2001 and then went underground. He was accused of playing a part in several attacks in the country, in affiliation with fellow Moroccan Karim el-Mejjati, who was killed at Al-Rass a few weeks earlier.