Shawqi Salama Mustafa Atiya
Shawqi Salama Mustafa Atiya (شوقي سلامة مصطفى عطيه) is an alleged militant leader within
Life
In 1987, Atiya married Jihan Hassan Mohamed Hassan, the daughter of Hasan Ahmed Hasan, and the couple moved to Saudi Arabia.[2][3]
He was ostensibly linked to the 1995 plot to blow up the Khan el-Khalili market, as well as the assassination of Speaker of Parliament Rifaat el-Mahgoub in October 1990.[4][5][6]
Arrest
Egypt issued an arrest warrant for Atiya, and his five colleagues in Tirana, only on the advice of the United States.
Atiya claimed he was hanged from his limbs, kept in a cell filled with water to his knees, and suffered electrical shocks to his
His wife was captured and tortured for three days in
Together with the other three Returnees brought from Tirana, his capture and torture were listed as the main reasons for the 1998 US embassies bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.[4]
References
- ^ Mother Jones, Disappearing Act: Rendition by the Numbers, March 3, 2008
- ^ a b c d Hafez Abu-Saada, "Compiled complaints of Ahmed Osman Saleh, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Naggar, Shawki Salama Attiya, Essam Abdel Tawwab, and Mohamed Hassan Tita", legal document produced by lawyer, 1998
- ^ New York Times, An investigation in Egypt illustrates al-Qaeda's web, November 21, 2001
- ^ Victoria Advocate, Bombings connect to mysterious arrests[permanent dead link], August 13, 1998
- ^ al-Ahram, Military trial for bombing suspects Archived 2009-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, November 5–11, 1998
- ^ 24ur.com, Islamski skrajneži napovedali nove protiameriške napade, February 4, 1999
- ^ Mayer, Jane, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals", 2008. p. 114