Arrested and Charged
The returnees themselves were around 14 in number. About 12 were snatched in Albania, one in Sofia, and one in Baku. One other was killed during the Tirana roundup, which arrested four and occurred in July 1998. The returnees include:
| Husam Muhammad Khamis Nuwayr aka Adil Anwar |
Pled not guilty to overseeing the Feb. 7 1994 bombing of the Egyptian National Bank, the Feb. 15 bombing of the Alexandria-Kuwait Bank, the Feb. 23 bombing of the International Commercial Bank in al-Muhandisin, the attack on the Egyptian-American Bank in al-Muhandisin, the attack on the Mustafa Kamil Branch of Misr Bank and the attack on the Nile Office Tower in al-Jizah. | ||
| Ahmad 'Abd-al-Fattah Sayyid | Was part of the Feb. 7 1994 bombing of the Egyptian National Bank | ||
| Hasan Salih Mahmud | Was part of the Feb. 15 1994 bombing of the Alexandria-Kuwait Bank | ||
| Shawqi Salama Mustafa Atiya شوقي سلامة مصطفى عطيه |
Ran the Tirana office. Egypt issued an arrest warrant for Atiya, and his five colleagues in Tirana, only on the advice of the United States. Atiya claimed he was hanged from his limbs, kept in a cell filled with water to his knees, and suffered electrical shocks to his testicles. | ||
| Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar احمد ابراهيم السيد النجار |
Arrested in Tirana under death sentence from October 1997 following 1994 plot to bomb the Khan el-Khalili market in Cairo. | ||
| Muhammad Hassan Mahmud Tita | Tirana | ||
| Ahmad Isma'il 'Uthman | Tirana; was under a death sentence from March 1994 | ||
| 'Issam Abdul-Tawab Abdul-'Alim | Sofia | ||
| Ahmed Salama Mabruk احمد سلامه مبروك |
Baku | ||
| Ahmed Refa'i Taha أحمد رفاعي طه |
Former Emir of Gama'a | Held by Egypt since 2001 and probably still alive | Sentenced to death |
| Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub محمد زكي محجوب |
Alleged to be (though no evidence has ever been produced in Canada or Egypt) special Actions Committee, and a terrorist trainer | Never charged in Canada, has been fighting immigration "security certificate" since June 2000 in Canada, currently under house arrest pending outcome of his case | Sentenced to 15 years in absentia |
| Yassir al-Sirri ياسر السري |
Has safe haven in the UK; wanted in the USA in the case against Lynne Stewart and others | Sentenced to death; was already under a death sentence for his part in the attempt against Sedki, in which a random child was killed | |
| Magdi Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar مجدي ابراهيم السيد النجار |
Brother of Ahmad al-Naggar |
Acquitted in absentia | |
| Abdel-Akher Hammad عبد الآخر حماد |
A cleric | Now free in Egypt | Sentenced to death but recanted |
| El-Sayed Abdel-Maqsud السيد عبد المقصود |
Headed the Tirana office | Escaped the roundup in Albania and reached the UK, where he got political asylum | Sentenced to 10 years |
| Muhammad al-Islambouli محمد الإسلامبولي |
(brother of assassin Khalid al-Islambouli) | Said to be now in al-Qaeda; see al-Hukaymah | Sentenced to death |
| Khalid Abdullah |
(former husband of Zaynab Khadr) | Involved in 1996 Attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan | Sentenced to prison |
| Mohammed Atef |
Charged in absentia, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment | ||
| Isam Muhammad Khalil Ahmad Bakr |
Charged in absentia, sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Extradited by Yemen in 2007, while his wife was deported. |
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