Ahmad Salama Mabruk

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Ahmad Salama Mabruk
Born1956
Drone strike
Other namesAbu al-Faraj al-Masri,[1]
Sharif[2]
CitizenshipEgyptian
ChildrenIbrahim, Musab, at least one daughter

Ahmad Salama Mabruk (

War on Terror.[6]

Life

A

reserve officer
.

In 1981, Mabruk was arrested following the

assassination of President Anwar Sadat, and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.[2] Released in 1988, Mabruk moved to Afghanistan where Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif was gathering EIJ members. However, al-Sharif was replaced by Ayman al-Zawahiri as leader of the group in 1991, and the following year Mabruk moved to Sudan.[2]

In 1994, Mabruk's 15-year-old son Musab, as well as the 15-year-old Ahmed, son of

firing squad. The trial, and the execution, were filmed and copies of the film were distributed by al-Jihad.[9][10] The incident "catastrophically undermined" Mabruk's position in the organisation,[2] and when the Sudanese found out about the executions, al-Jihad was ordered to leave the country.[11]

The Khan el-Khalili marketplace

Mabruk ran al-Jihad operations under the

Adel Abdel Bary.[15]

Throughout 1996, he maintained telephone contact with Canadian Mahmoud Jaballah, who was believed to be an al-Jihad organiser.[16][17] At some point in the year, he traveled to Albania for several months where he was employed by the Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage.[2][14] His daughter married Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah.[18]

Arrest and imprisonment in Russia

On 1 December 1996, Mabruk and

Tharwat Salah Shehata traveled to Dagestan to plead for their release. Shehata received permission to visit the prisoners and is believed to have smuggled them $3000 which was later confiscated from their cell, and to have given them a letter which the Russians didn't bother to translate.[12]

In April 1997, they were sentenced to six months, and were subsequently released a month later and ran off without paying their court-appointed attorney Abdulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty".

Baku, Azerbaijan where he'd managed to secure himself a position.[19]

In June 1998, tired of Mabruk's criticisms of his relationship with bin Laden, al-Zawahiri allegedly banished him from al-Jihad's central operations. He subsequently remained in Azerbaijan when Zawahiri left, and set up his militant cell under the Bavari-C name, replacing Eidarous as the regional commander, after his transfer to London.[13][20]

1998 arrest in Azerbaijan

In August 1998, a

CIA, who allowed a Canadian-raised Mossad agent to unofficially tag along as seven or eight CIA officers based in Frankfurt oversaw a local police raid on the Baku hotel room on 20 August.[21][22][23]

When the Azeri police received confirmation that Saqr was in his hotel room drinking coffee with others, they stormed the room grabbing all three people they found present and brought them still barefoot to the police station. It was now realised that the Iranian official hadn't yet shown up, and they had instead arrested Saqr, as well as Mabruk and

laptop computer was seized, and yielded information on an Albanian cell, leading to a raid which saw five more arrested and extradited to Egypt.[25][26] It also ostensibly confirmed the identity of more than a hundred others who were, or had been, arrested based on their links to the group.[27]

An alternative telling of his arrest suggests that he had been arrested outside a Baku restaurant after American authorities had been tipped off by an informant inside al-Jihad.[25]

Imprisonment in Egypt

Under interrogation and alleged torture,

Huckstep Military Court.[12][28]

While in prison, he began to lead a militant al-Marj group in the Abu Zabal prison camp. In the summer of 2004, he used this position to denounce an attempt by

Predator drone airstrike in the northwest Frontier Province that had killed Midhat Mursi.[30]

In December 2007, al-Zawahiri announced he would take questions from the public and attempt to answer as many as he could.[31] The 846th question asked if he knew whether it was true that Mabruk had been arrested while attempting to purchase red arsenic.[32]

The following year, Zawahiri mentioned Mabruk as one of those leading the campaign to protest unfair treatment by Egyptian prison authorities who had neglected the medical needs of imprisoned militants.[33]

Release

Mabruk was released from prison following the

Egyptian revolution of 2011.[34]

By 2016, Mabruk had travelled to Syria, where he joined the central leadership of al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda.[4]

Death

At approximately 5:15 pm on 3 October 2016, while being driven down a suburban street in the rebel stronghold of

Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, Mabruk's car was hit by a drone strike, killing him and the driver instantaneously. Jabhat Fateh al-Sham confirmed Mabruk's death on a Twitter account run by the group.[35]

References

  1. ^ Schiler, Verlag Hans. Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, The Spectrum of Islamic Movements, 2006
  2. ^ a b c d e Jamestown Foundation, Jamestown.org Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, from EIJ to Chechnya: A Portrait of Mahmoud Hinnawi, 1 July 2005
  3. The Long War Journal
    . 28 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Syria's cease-fire strengthens al-Qaida branch". Associated Press. 29 May 2016.
  5. ^ Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Azerbaijan: Whether al-Jihad or any other terrorist organization had a presence in Azerbaijan between August 1995 and May 1996 Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 5 February 2003
  6. ^ Mother Jones, Disappearing Act: Rendition by the Numbers Archived 13 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine, 3 March 2008
  7. ^ Potomac Books, Through Our Enemies Eyes, 2003. p. 73
  8. ^ Al-Ahram, Weekly.Ahram.org Archived 13 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Hamza connection, 19 January 2005
  9. ^ Bergen, Peter, The Osama bin Laden I Know, 2006.
  10. Asharq Alawsat, Al-Qaeda's secret Emails: Part Four Archived 9 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine
    , 19 June 2005
  11. Sageman, Marc
    , Understanding Terror Networks, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, p.45
  12. ^ a b c d e "Saga of Dr. Zawahri Sheds Light On the Roots of al Qaeda Terror". The Wall Street Journal.
  13. ^ a b c Gerges, Fawaz A. (2005). The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. p. 169.
  14. ^ a b Deliso, Christopher. "The Coming Balkan Caliphate", 2007. p. 34
  15. ^ al-Ahram, Military trial for bombing suspects Archived 11 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine, 5–11 November 1998
  16. ^ Tab 9, MCI et al v. Mahmoud Jaballah, DES-6-99, Transcript of Proceedings, 8 June 1999, p. 95
  17. ^ Tab 11, MCI et al v. Mahmoud Jaballah, DES-4-01, Transcript of Proceedings, 11 July 2006, pp. 856-858
  18. ^ United States v. Usama bin Laden, Transcript of Day 8
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  20. ^ CNS.Miis.edu, Copy of indictment, USA v. Usama bin Laden et al. S(6)98 Crim.1023 (LBS), District Court of Southern New York, June 1999. Emphasis on page 28.
  21. ^ a b c Bell, Stewart (15 October 2005). "Mossad's Canuck gets his man". National Post.
  22. ^ a b Salah, Muhammad (20 April 1999). "Bin Ladin Front Reportedly Bought CBW from E. Europe". Al-Hayah.
  23. ^ a b Salah, Muhammad (21 April 1999). "US Said Interrogating Jihadist Over CBW". Al-Hayah.
  24. ^ Ross, Michael and Jonathan Kay. "The Volunteer: The Incredible True Story of an Israeli Spy on the Trail of International Terrorists", 2007. pp 214-224
  25. ^ a b "The End of Egyptian Islamic Jihad?". Jamestown Foundation. 9 February 2005.
  26. ^ Rasanayagam, Angelo. Afghanistan: A Modern History. p. 247.
  27. El-Zayyat, Montasser
    (2004). The Road to al-Qaeda. Translated by Fakry, Ahmed.
  28. ^ Al-Sharq al-Awsat (2 December 2001). "Extracts from al-Jihad Leader al-Zawahiri's new book".
  29. ^ Brachman, Jarret (2008). Global Jihadism. p. 77.
  30. ^ "Zawahiri lauds chemical expert". The National. 24 August 2008. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014.
  31. ^ Musharbash, Yassin (16 January 2007). "Ask al-Qaida: A jihadi advice column? Osama bin Laden's second-in-command answers questions from fans of the terror group worldwide". Salon/Der Spiegel.
  32. ^ Al-Ekhlas. "English translation of original questions to Zawahiri". docstoc.com.
  33. ^ Zawahiri, Ayman (March 2008). "The Exoneration: A Treatise Exonerating of the Nation of the Pen and the Sword of the Denigrating Charge of Being Irresolute and Weak" (PDF). p. 265.
  34. ^ "Veteran Egyptian jihadist now an al Qaeda leader in Syria - The Long War Journal".
  35. ^ "Airstrike in Syria kills al-Qaida-linked commander once held over 1981 Sadat assassination". 4 October 2016 – via Japan Times Online.
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