Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi
Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi (محمود هشام محمد مصطفى الحناوي), also known by his kunya Abu Sahl,[1] was an Islamic militant with ties to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and later Al-Qaeda. He was killed in Chechnya in 2005.
Early life
His older brother Ahmed Hani al-Hennawi was arrested in 1974 as a founding member of EIJ.[1] Around 1980, al-Hennawi was arrested along with another brother named Hisham, again accused of complicity in the al-Jihad group.[1]
In 1984, al-Hennawi moved to
He moved to the Sudan, but after an incident involving the sons of Ahmad Salama Mabruk and Mohammed Sharaf, was among the Arabs ordered to leave the country by the government so traveled to China where he again began working as a merchant until he felt Chinese authorities were seeking him, and so moved to Azerbaijan.[1][2]
Arrest and imprisonment in Russia
On December 1, 1996, al-Hennawi and
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 Abulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty".
Returnees from Albania
He was convicted in absentia during the 1998 Returnees from Albania trial in Egypt, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.[1]
Death and imprisonment of son
In early 2005, he was reported killed at the age of 50, fighting in Chechnya.[1]
His son Hamza was subsequently arrested by Egyptian authorities.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Global Terror Alert, Death of Senior EIJ Member Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi Reported in the Caucasus Archived 2009-02-10 at the Wayback Machine, May 2005
- ^ Sageman, Marc, Understanding Terror Networks, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, p.45
- ^ Wall Street Journal, "Saga of Dr. Zawahri Sheds Light On the Roots of al Qaeda Terror"
- ^ DEBKA, "Who Killed the Globetrotting Abu Sahal?"