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Source: Cairo – Ashraf Abdel Hamid
On Monday, Al-Masry, Adel Abdel-Bari, a former spokesman for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, announced his return to London following his release from a US prison in which he was held, following his involvement in terrorist attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which caused the fall of 224 More than 5,000 people died and were injured.
Egyptian security sources revealed to “Al-Arabiya.net” information about Abdul-Bari, who was one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad group involved in the assassination of the late President Anwar Sadat, and revealed his role in the case of the “returnees. Albania “and the case of Khan Al-Khalili.
His name is Adel Abdul Majid Abdul-Bari, he was born in 1960. He joined the ranks of the Islamic Group in the late 1970s and was arrested in the early 1980s. He left in 1985, where he obtained a degree in Law.
So he came to London
He worked as a lawyer and specialized in defending cases of Islamic groups and detainees. He also worked in the office of Montaser Al-Zayyat, a former lawyer for Islamic groups, who confirmed to Al-Arabiya.net that he worked in his office and went with him to America in 1991 to defend the Egyptian Mr. Naseer, accused of killing to the leader of the movement. Kach’s extremist Meir Kahana in New York in 1990.
Al-Zayat said Abdel-Bari traveled, on his way back to Egypt, to London and applied for and obtained political asylum.
Morsi forgave him
During the government of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, Abdul-Bari was one of the jihadists abroad, who were granted a presidential pardon, despite the death penalty imposed in the Khan al-Khalili case of nineteen ninety five.
He planned to attack Egyptian tourism and was accused of financing and planning a suicide operation in the Khan al-Khalili area west of Cairo, which is crowded with tourists, by sending a car bomb to blow up the area and attacking two buses that they were transporting foreign tourists and killing as many Israeli and American tourists as possible.
‘Returnees from Albania’
In 1999, a military court sentenced him to life imprisonment with forced labor in the “Returnees from Albania” case, in which 107 leaders of the Jihad Group were tried before the Supreme Military Court, accused of planning and carrying out armed operations in Egypt and abroad. One of the defendants admitted that he was providing them with the money necessary to carry out operations and forge passports.
Adel Abdul-Bari founded a magazine called Al-Dalil, in which he promoted the Islamic group and its goals, and wrote about it for the intellectual rapprochement between the Jihad Group and the Islamic Group.
The bombing of the United States embassy
Regarding this terrorist figure, Amr Abdel Moneim, investigator of the file of the Islamic Movements, told Al-Arabiya.net that Abdel-Bari was accused in the Tale’aa Al-Fath case in 1993 and the attempt to assassinate the former Prime Minister Atef Sidqi, and he traveled to Afghanistan in 1995 and there he approached the jihadist. The Egyptian Muhammad Ibrahim al-Mekkawi, nicknamed the Sword of Justice, and through him met Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, and played an important role in the bombing of the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar al- Salam in 1998, and he also went to Pakistan and from there to Yemen, then to Iran, then back to Afghanistan and was arrested after the fact. September 11, 2001. He added that he rejected the ideological revisions that Sayed Imam requested with the Islamic Group and joined Al Qaeda after that.
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