Ahmad Salama Mabruk

Ahmad Salama Mabruk (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد سلامة مبروك; 1956 – 3 October 2016), known as Abu Faraj al-Masri (Arabic: أبو الفرج المصري), was a senior leader in the Syrian militant group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and was previously a leader in Jabhat al-Nusra and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant groups.

Musab went through his father's files and photocopied them for the Egyptians, but the Sudanese intelligence service saw the covert meetings and alerted al-Jihad, recommending that they treat the boys leniently if they confessed.

[13] In 1995, he was sentenced to death in absentia for plotting to bomb the Khan el-Khalili market in Cairo,[14] along with Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar and Adel Abdel Bary.

[18] On 1 December 1996, Mabruk and Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi - both carrying false passports - accompanied Ayman al-Zawahiri on a trip to Chechnya, where they hoped to re-establish the faltering al-Jihad.

The group switched vehicles three times but was arrested within hours of entering Russian territory and spent five months in a Makhachkala prison awaiting trial.

Shehata received permission to visit the prisoners and is believed to have smuggled them $3000 which was later confiscated from their cell, and to have given them a letter which the Russians didn't bother to translate.

He subsequently remained in Azerbaijan when Zawahiri left, and set up his militant cell under the Bavari-C name, replacing Eidarous as the regional commander, after his transfer to London.

[13][20] In August 1998, a wiretapped phone call tipped off the Israeli Mossad that a rendezvous between Ihab Saqr and an Iranian MOIS official was planned in Baku, Azerbaijan.

[32] The following year, Zawahiri mentioned Mabruk as one of those leading the campaign to protest unfair treatment by Egyptian prison authorities who had neglected the medical needs of imprisoned militants.

[4] At approximately 5:15 pm on 3 October 2016, while being driven down a suburban street in the rebel stronghold of Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, Mabruk's car was hit by a drone strike, killing him and the driver instantaneously.