Thirwat Shehata
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Thirwat Salah Shehata (ثروت صالح شحاته) (also Tarwat Salah Abdallah[1]) (born June 29, 1960)[2] is a core member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.[3] Married to the sister of Mahmoud Jaballah, Shehata served as Jaballah's lawyer in Egypt.[4]
al-Jihad involvement, involvement with Mahmoud Jaballah
Shehata was alternately reported to have been sentenced to death, or a light prison sentence, in absentia in 1991 following the al-Jihad assassination of Anwar Sadat.[5][6]
He maintained telephone contact with Jaballah through 1996 when the latter moved to Canada.
In November 1996, Jaballah mentioned that he hadn't heard from "his father" recently, and Shehata assured him that he was alright and just having difficulty communicating lately. Canadian authorities have alleged this conversation was in reference to EIJ leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.[4] Also in December, Shehata, now Jaballah's brother-in-law to whom he had offered financial support, told Jaballah that he was in Syria and preparing to go stay with "Daoud", believed to be a reference to Ibrahim Eidarous who was staying in Azerbaijan.[4]
On December 13, Jaballah was informed that his friend "Najib" had been "hospitalised", which authorities suggest was a reference to Ahmad Salama Mabruk being imprisoned along with al-Zawahiri and Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi by Russian authorities as they tried to cross into Chechnya.[10] He promised to raise funds in Canada to help offset Nijab's troubles while Shehata did the same in Azerbaijan. Hani Yusef al-Sebai contacted Jaballah at this time, explaining that he was staying near Shehata and helping with the fundraising for the release.[4]
Jabbalah contacted
In July 1998, Jaballah phoned Ibrahim Ismail Allam and passed on a message Shehata had asked him to deliver. Two days prior to the
Alleged involvement in al-Qaeda, arrest
Following the
In the lead-up to the 2003
In 2005, he was believed to be under a form of
References
- ^ Excluded Parties List System, ELPS: Cross-Reference Record: Thirwat Salah Shihata
- ^ Federal Register, Volume 69, No. 103., May 27, 2004.
- ^ BBC South Asia, Who's who in al-Qaeda (February 2003)
- ^ a b c d e f g h Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Summary of the Security Intelligence Report concerning Mahmoud Jaballah[permanent dead link], February 22, 2008
- ^ a b Associated Press, Details of some terror list groups, September 25, 2001
- al-Zayat, Montasser, "The Road to al-Qaeda", 2002
- ^ Immigration and Refugee Board Transcript June 15, 1998
- ^ Tab 9, MCI et al v. Mahmoud Jaballah, DES-6-99, Transcript of Proceedings, June 8, 1999, p. 95
- ^ Tab 11, MCI et al v. Mahmoud Jaballah, DES-4-01, Transcript of Proceedings, July 11, 2006, pp. 856-858
- ^ Wall Street Journal, "Saga of Dr. Zawahri Sheds Light On the Roots of al Qaeda Terror", July 2, 2002.
- ^ Wright, p. 250.
- ^ Gebara, Khalil (10 February 2005). "The End of Egyptian Islamic Jihad?". The Jamestown Foundation. Archived from the original on 2006-11-21. Retrieved 2006-12-07.
- ^ Naughton, Philippe (2005-08-04). "The man they call Osama bin Laden's brain". Times Online. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
- ^ Bell, Stewart. National Post, "Mossad's Canuck gets his man", October 15, 2005
- Daily Telegraph, "Worldwide trail of bloodshed that leads to suburban London", September 19, 2001.
- ^ Testimony of Husnah Mojammad El-Sayyed El-Mashtouli, August 20, 1999 before the Federal Court of Canada. p. 688.
- ^ Rahim, Marwa Abdel. AFP, "Egyptians' role in al-Qaeda again highlighted by purported Zawahiri tape", May 22, 2003
- 109th Congress, "Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq"
- ^ Tenet, George. "At the Centre of the Storm", 2007. pp. 349-351
- ^ Windrem, Robert. MSNBC, "Al-Qaida leaders, associates", May 2005
- ^ "Senior al-Qaeda figure leaves Iran amid a series of departures by terrorist suspects". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
- ^ a b Egypt arrests a top aide to al-Qaida chief in Nile Delta city, Associated Press, Accessed April 29, 2014