Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim (Arabic: محمد حسن خليل الحكيم‎) alias Abu Jihad al-Masri ( أبو جهاد المصري ) (died October 31, 2008) was purported by US authorities to operate in Iran as the head of media and propaganda for al-Qaeda, and "may also [have been] the Chief of External Operations for al Qaeda".[1] The name Abu Jihad is an informal or assumed name meaning roughly "father of the struggle", and al-Masri simply means the Egyptian. He was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan on October 31, 2008.[2]