Legacy[edit]

The Dutch researcher Roel Meijer described al-Ayiri as "a well-informed, clear headed, and down to earth analyst".^[3] He furthermore says that "what immediately strikes the reader of the works of Ayiri is their scope, depth, and length" as "between 1998, when he was released from prison, until his death [in 2003], he managed to publish hundreds of pages" on different topics.^[3] The Palestinian-born British journalist Abdel Bari Atwan said of him that he was "al-Qa'ida's first webmaster and an influential ideologue who wrote thirty books."^[8]