Ihab el-Sherif

Ihab el-Sherif

Ihab el-Sherif (January 1954 - July 2005) served as Egypt's ambassador to Iraq until Iraqi kidnappers murdered him in July 2005. He previously served as Egypt's "chargé d'affaires" to Israel.

Kidnapping and death

El-Sherif was abducted on July 3, 2005, when he stepped out of his car in Baghdad to buy a newspaper.

The al-Qaeda in Iraq organization, run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, once Iraq's most wanted militant, posted a message on the internet on 6 July 2005, saying that the group had killed al-Sherif. It showed a video of Sherif blindfolded, giving his name and address and acknowledging that he once worked as a diplomat in Israel.

The website, which earlier had displayed Sherif's identification cards, did not show the killing. The message said: "The Islamic court of the al-Qaeda Organization in the Land of Two Rivers has decided to refer the ambassador of the state of Egypt, an ally of the Jews and the Christians, to the mujahideen so that they can execute him"."

On July 7 2005, al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed in an Internet posting to have killed him, stating, "the verdict of God against the ambassador of the infidels, the ambassador of Egypt, has been carried out"." His death was subsequently confirmed by the Egyptian government.

El-Sherif was the highest-level hostage executed since Coalition-led forces ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2003. The slaying was part of a campaign to deter other nations from expanding diplomatic ties with Iraq's new government. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stated that the murder would not deter Egypt from supporting Iraq.Fact|date=March 2007

Arrests

On July 14, 2005, United States troops arrested Khamis Farhan Khalaf abd al-Fahdawi, the alleged al-Qaida leader suspected to be responsible for Sherif's murder. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/14/iraq.main/index.html]

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4660909.stm Captors kill Egypt envoy to Iraq] , BBC, 7 July 2005
* [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2005/20050714_2055.html Department of Defense press release]


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