Returnees From Albania - The Charges

The Charges

Broadly, the aim of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya was to bring about the destruction of the Egyptian government, followed by its replacement with a sharia-based Islamist regime. To get there, the plan was to kill and intimidate government members, destroy the Egyptian tourism industry, and create fear and distrust in the Egyptian population. In more detail, the trial addressed

• several bombings of banks
• the 1990 assassination of the chairman of the Egyptian parliament Dr. Rif'at al-Mahjub
• the 1993 assassination of Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi, which killed four others also
• the 1993 assassination attempt against Prime Minister Atef Sedki, in which a child was killed
• the 1994 assassination of Major General Ra'uf Khayrat (assistant director of the SSIS) in Cairo
• the 1995 assassination of Egyptian attaché Ahmed Alaa Nazmi in Switzerland
• the 1995 assassination attempt against President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa (26 June; EIJ claim responsibility)
• the 1995 bombing of Egypt's embassy in Pakistan, killing 15 people; an intended simultaneous mass murder of tourists at Khan al-Khalili did not materialize.
• the 1997 massacre of tourists at Luxor