Yassir al-Sirri

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Yasser Tawfiq Ali El-Sirri (ياسر توفيق علي السري) (kunya Abu Ammar) is an Egyptian militant connected to the Vanguards of Conquest and al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, sentenced to death in the 1998 Returnees from Albania trial.[1][2]

Finding asylum in England, he became the director of the Islamic Information Centre.[3]

Early life

al-Sirri was born in the late 1950s and attended primary school in

dishonorable discharge from the Egyptian military after partaking in demonstrations against the government,[5] and attended the Institute for Social Services in Port Said for the next five years.[1] In 1984, he was jailed for three months for distributing pamphlets attacking Egyptian political leadership.[5]

He eventually began working for al-Hidaya al-Islamiyah which helped the families of those Islamists arrested by the government.[1]

He moved to Yemen in 1989, and subsequently to Sudan. He traveled to

Peshawar, Pakistan three times, where he volunteered with charitable organisations helping the refugees from the Soviet–Afghan War from 1991–1992.[5]

Militant history

He was sentenced to death

Atef Sedki which killed a 12-year-old schoolgirl named Shaimaa.[3][5]

He fled to England in 1994 and claimed

political asylum. He began producing the Islamic Media Monitor.[5] Following the 1997 Luxor massacre
, Egypt issued a list of fourteen wanted Islamists, including el-Sirri.

On April 29 and October 23, 1999, he received telephone calls from Ahmed Abdel Sattar.[6] He was arrested in October 2001, charged with helping Sattar support Omar Abdel-Rahman, but the charges were dismissed seven months later.[7]

In 2005, he gave statements to the media alleging Hosni Mubarak had rigged the Egyptian elections, and encouraged citizens to boycott the election.[8]

On August 7, 2002, Egypt arrested both al-Sirri's brothers in

ghost prisoner.[9]

In an interview which aired on Al-Hiwar TV on February 2, 2011 (as translated by

MEMRI), Al-Sirri called for Egyptians to block international shipping through the Suez Canal in support of the revolution against Hosni Mubarak.[10]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d Brachman, Jarret. "Global Jihadism", p. 166
  2. ^ Bodansky, Yossef. "Bin Laden", p. 293
  3. ^ a b Herald Journal, "Airstrike may have killed key militant: 1st reported death", October 19, 2001
  4. ISBN 9780199927319
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  5. ^ a b c d e Al-Ahram, Egypt's Most Wanted Archived 2013-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Library Information and Research Service, "The Middle East", 2008. p. 741
  7. ^ Anderson, Jon Lee. "The Lion's Grave", p. 194
  8. ^ Khaleej Times, Candidate woos others, and then votes for Hosni, September 13, 2005
  9. ^ a b Cageprisoners.com, Ghost: Al-Sayid Muahmmad Hassan 'Abd al-Ghani Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Egypt Uprising: London-Based Egyptian Islamist Yasser Al-Sirri Calls to Block International Shipping in the Suez Canal and to Halt the Flow of Oil, MEMRI, February 2, 2011 Clip No. 2790.
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