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Azzam was killed in Peshawar, Pakistan on November 24, 1989. Azzam was a Palestinian Islamic scholar and a co-founder of the Maktab al-Khidamat, which later became al-Qaeda. He was a close friend of Osama bin Laden and helped him to recruit volunteers for the Afghan war against the Soviet Union. Azzam was killed by a car bomb that was detonated by a remote control device.