Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub

Mohammed Zeki Mahjoub (Arabic: محمد زكي محجوب) (also Abu Ibrahim,[1] Mahmoud Shaker[2]) is an Egyptian national [3] who was arrested in May 2000 on a security certificate for his alleged membership in the Vanguards of Conquest.

Although he has not been charged in Canada,[4] the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has stated that they believe he will "engage in or instigate the subversion by force of the government of Egypt" if allowed free.

[6] Following his graduation from the University of Zagazig in Egypt,[7] Mahjoub says he served in the Egyptian military, but faced persecution and torture from the civil police force due to his "religious beliefs".

[8] Mahjoub spent five months looking for work as an agricultural engineer specializing in land reclamation, and believed it was his lack of experience that prevented him from finding a job.

[1] The man worked for an agricultural firm named Al-Thimar al-Mubaraka,[10] and secured Mahjoub an interview with Osama bin Laden in Khartoum.

He noted Mahjoub's lack of experience, and told him to take a week to study the needs at the Al-Damazin Farms,[1] which included 4,000 seasonal workers tending nearly a million acres (4,000 km²), and then decide whether he felt the job was right.

[12][13] On December 30, 1995, he entered Canada as a refugee using a forged Saudi passport he bought for CAD $2,500,[8][9][14] and admitted he had been arrested several times in Egypt due to his brief association with a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

[1] In November, Mahmoud Jaballah spoke to a colleague and was informed that a man matching Mahjoub's description had moved to Toronto, whom both had known in Afghanistan.

[7] Jaballah said that he was a shrewd and manipulative man who had worked directly under Abdel Hamid, believed to be a reference to Vanguards of Conquest leader Kamel Agiza, which CSIS maintains would make Mahjoub the second-in-command of the militant organisation.

[25] That summer, Mahjoub began a hunger strike, consuming water, juice and occasional broth, lasting 76 days and losing 110 lb (50 kg) before he was hospitalised.

This was done at his own request, as he explained on March 19 to Federal Court Justice Simon Noel that he could no longer subject his family to the intolerable and humiliating invasions of their privacy that the conditions of his house arrest required.