He was the founder of several charities alleged to have links to terrorism who was found murdered on February 25, 1991.
The Al Kifah Refugee Center that Shalabi founded has been described as of pivotal importance in Operation Cyclone—America's covert program to send radical, foreign, militant, fundamentalist, Islamists to Afghanistan, to strengthen the resistance against the Communists.
According to Gerald Posner's book Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11: The center's director was Emir Mustafa Shalabi, a young Egyptian immigrant with a shock of red hair.
Shalabi was infused with the same religious fervor for the Afghan cause that roused many young Muslims who regarded it as a holy war to liberate an Islamic country from communist domination.
Armed with official U.S. Army videotapes and military documents marked "Top Secret," Mohamed conducted a series of weekend "training" classes and a two-week-long intensive seminar.