- Muhammad Abdelrahim al-Sharqawi
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Muhammad Abdelrahim al-Sharqawi was an alleged member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and one of the closest colleagues of Ayman al-Zawahiri.[1]
An engineer by trade, he was put in charge of recruiting members for the group by al-Zawahiri, whom he had known since 1968.[1]
He established a turnery at his apartment in the Gamaliyya district of Cairo, where he boosted the group's revenues by manufacturing wooden gunparts.[1] It is believed that Essam al-Qamari hid in the turnery after his 1981 defection from the Egyptian army.[1]
When Pakistan arrested him and extradited him to Egypt, the "fears of Arab Afghan leaders skyrocketed" as it signalled the start of a "war" against theh Mujahideen fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1] He was sentenced to three years in Tora Prison, and upon his release sought out Zawahiri again and resumed his partnership.[1]
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al-Jihad under the leadership of Ayman al-Zawahiri al-Zawahiri ran AJ from 1991 until 2001, when it merged with al-Qaeda Vanguards of Conquest The Core of al-Jihad Ayman al-Zawahiri, Attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan, Returnees from Albania, Mohammed Atef, Mohammed Mutaleb, Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Thirwat Shehata, Adil Awad SiyamKilled in operations Nazih Nushi Rashed, Tarek Abdel-NabiAlleged members of al-Jihad Hani al-Sibai, Ali Mohamed, Ahmad Salamah Mabruk, Essam al-Qamari, Muhammad al-Zery, Mahmoud Jaballah, Ibrahim Ismail Allam, Ibrahim Eidarous, Adel Abdel Bary, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Barakat Fahim Ali Mohamed, Muhammad al-Zery, Salem el-Masri, Sayyed Ahmed Abdel-Maqssuod, Sayyed Ajami, Osama Hassan Ahmed, Saeed Salama, Abdel Fahmi, Issam Alim, Ahmad Isma'il 'Uthman, Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi, Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri, Abu Muaz al-Masry, Ahmad Ibrahim al-Naggar, Tareq Ali Mursi, Magid Mostafa, Mohammad Hassan Mahmoud, Mohammad Huda, Shawqi Salama Mustafa Atiya, Abu Talal al-Qasimi, Mohamed Hassan Tita, Ameen Yusef al-Domeiry, Khaled Medhet al-Fiqi, Muhammad Abdelrahim al-Sharqawi, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, Yusef Abdel Majeed, Essam Hendawi, Abdel Hadi al-Tunsi, Nabeel al-Bora'i, Essam Hasheesh, Waheed Gamal al-Deen, Hassan Ali, Ismaeel Tantawi, Osman RabeiCategories:
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