 | Primary Organization | Al-Qaeda |
| Other Organization | Maktab al-Khidamat |
| Location | Peshawar, Pakistan |
| Time | Nov. 24, 1989 |
| Victim Deaths | 3 |
| Participants | Abdullah Azzam (Primary Target) |
 | Participants | Osama bin Laden (Operational Commander) |
| Narrative and Notes (Reliable) | Azzam, the ideological founder of al-Qaeda, and his two sons were killed by a remote-detonated car bomb in Peshawar. It is not certain who killed them. |
| Narrative and Notes (Questionable) | Speculation about who killed Azzam includes his deputy, Osama bin Laden, or militant Egyptians who considered Azzam a rival.1 |
Sources and Notes |
| 1Gunaratna, Rohan. 'Inside al-Qaeda: Global Network of Terror.' Columbia University Press: New York, 2002. |
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