Muhammad Abdelrahim al-Sharqawi

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Muhammad Abdelrahim al-Sharqawi was an alleged member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and was one of the closest colleagues of Ayman al-Zawahiri. [1] whom he had known since 1968.

The Egyptian Islamic Jihad, formerly called simply Islamic Jihad, originally referred to as al-Jihad, and then the Jihad Group, or the Jihad Organization, is an Egyptian Islamist terrorist group active since the late 1970s. It is under worldwide embargo by the United Nations as an affiliate of Al-Qaeda. It is also banned by several individual governments worldwide. The group is a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Ayman al-Zawahiri Egyptian physician, Islamic theologian and leader of al-Qaeda

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He was accused of establishing a turnery 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] however he was acquitted by the state security court.

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Essam Al-Qamari was a decorated tank commander and Major in the Egyptian army who smuggled weapons and ammunition from army strongholds for al-Jihad as a "disciple" of the late Sayyid Qutb.

An engineer by trade, he was also accused of recruiting members for the group, however he was not convicted by any court and

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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 the Mujahideen fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. [1] he was under administrative detention for 17 years in different Egyptian jails despite receiving more than 20 release orders from Egyptian courts, he was the released after Husny Mubarak was removed from power in 2011

Mujahideen is the plural form of mujahid, the term for one engaged in Jihad.

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Montasser el-Zayat, The Road to al-Qaeda, 2004. tr. by Ahmed Fakry
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