Washington frees an Egyptian who worked as a spokesman for Osama bin Laden … who left the country since 1991 (photos)

US authorities announced Monday that Egyptian Adel Abdul-Bari, a spokesman for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, had been released and returned to the British capital, London.

The newspaper “Daily Mail” said that he was released on humanitarian grounds as he was at risk of contracting the coronavirus due to obesity, after completing his sentence.

The story of Adel Abdul-Bari goes back to the British authorities’ announcement 22 years ago that Osama bin Laden’s spokesman had been arrested, and during his trial in London the United States demanded his extradition, and the doctor, Adel Abdul -Bari, 60, was jailed due to the devastating 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Killed 224 people.

The United States entered a judicial and legal arena until Britain agreed to hand him over to the American judiciary, and he was placed in federal prison to begin a sentence that lasted 16 years.

Adel Abdel-Bari is considered one of the leaders of extremism, who appeared in the eighties and early nineties in Egypt, and managed to leave the country in 1991, and demanded political asylum in Great Britain, and obtained several court decisions in Egypt , death penalty and life imprisonment, for his participation in terrorist operations carried out in Egypt. Against foreign embassies.

In 1998 he was arrested by the British authorities and charged with carrying out the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and was released for lack of evidence, but the United States insisted on his extradition until the British authorities agreed deliver it in 2012.

In 2012, the terrorist Brotherhood and its supporters of Islamic political groups tried to pressure the British ambassador in Cairo and demand that Abdel Bari return to London as a British refugee or to Egypt for a new trial.

He is the father of ISIS jihadist Abdul Majeed Abdul-Bari, who was arrested in Spain after traveling to Syria, where he was holding the severed head of an Assad regime soldier.

It is not even possible to place Abd al-Bari Sr now under the measures to prevent terrorism and investigate him because he has already served his sentence.

But the United States and the United Kingdom have agreed that they will not move him home until arrangements are made about what will happen next in preparation for his move to Britain.