71 entities named terrorists by Egypt, KSA, UAE and Bahrain - Photo by Egypt Today
CAIRO – 9 June 2017: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain announced in a joint statement early on Friday that they have included 59 individuals and 12 organizations with ties to Qatar on their terrorism watch list.
“Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain are unified in their ongoing commitment to combating terrorism, drying up the sources of its funding, countering extremist ideology and the tools of its dissemination and promotion, and to working together to defeat terrorism and protect all societies from its impact,” the statement said.
The statement added that the continuous and ongoing “violations” of the Authorities in Doha of Qatar’s commitments and obligations enshrined in agreements to which it is a signatory, have necessitated The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain to act to update their respective lists of designated terrorist organizations and individuals.
Egypt Today gives you the details of the individuals that were placed on Egypt, KSA, UAE and Bahrain’s terrorist lists:
Hamed Abdullah Ahmed Al-Ali
Nationality: Kuwaiti
Date of birth: 1960
Position: The general secretary of Salafi movement in Kuwait
Activities: jailed for four years in charges of committing actions destabilize Kuwait
Issued a fatwa that forbids cutting off relations with Qatar
Ayman Ahmed Abdel Ghani Hassanein
Nationality: Egyptian
Position: An Engineer and a member of the supreme committee of the dissolved Freedom and Justice Party
Criminal history: Accused of funding the terrorist group known as “Helwan” brigades, and coordinating with the Muslim Brotherhood students inside Universities, to incite them to commit actions that destabilize the academic environment. Fled to Qatar after the disperse of “Rabba’” sit-in.
Assem Abdel-Maged Mohamed Madi
Nationality: Egyptian
Position: A member of “al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya”
Criminal Record: Accused of assassinating the late President Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, was sentenced to 15 years in jail in 1982, sentenced to execution in 2013.
Lives currently in Qatar.
Yahya Aqil Salman Aqeel
Nationality: Egyptian
Position: A member of what is called the “legitimate Parliament” which is known to support the terrorist group in Sinai Peninsula
Criminal History: Supports the terrorist groups in Sinai
Support the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood
Ahmed Fouad Ahmed Gad Beltagy
Nationality: Egyptian
Position: Businessman
Criminal history: Included in the terrorist watch list since 2015 and all his financial assets are frozen.
Mohamed El-Saghir Abdel Rahim Mohamed
Nationality: Egyptian
Position: Azhar University staff member – Endowments Minister’s advisor under the Muslim Brotherhood rule
Criminal History: A leading member in El-Gama'a El-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) in Egypt and one of the main Islamist who incite violence. He kept moving between Turkey and Qatar within the last years.
Wajdi Abdelhamid Mohamed Ghoneim
Nationality: Egyptian
Date of Birth: February 8, 1951
Place of Birth: Alexandria
Position: A preacher in the Muslim Brotherhood
Criminal record: He was detained in Egypt for eight times in 1981, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1998.
He was arrested in the United States for his terrorist statements and was sent for a year in prison before he was finally deported.
He was banned from entering a number of countries such as Bahrain, South Africa and Yemen until he settled in Qatar.
Qatar asked him to leave its territory in 2014.
He has many fatwas (Islamic rulings) calling for the killing of officers of the army and police as well as Copts.
Hassan Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Al Dokki Al Houti
Nationality: UAE
Date of Birth: 1957
Place of Birth: Ras al-Khaimah emirate
He is a Muslim Brotherhood member
Activities: He is accused of forming the secret organization of the Brotherhood in the UAE. He is also charged for participating in several terrorist attacks as well as recruiting the Muslim Brotherhood’s youth to carry out terrorist acts.
Hakem Abysan Al-Humaidi Al-Mutairi
Nationality: Kuwait
Date of Birth: November 7, 1964
Place of Birth: Kuwait
Activities: The current president of the unauthorized Umma Party in Kuwait. He is also former Secretary General of the Salafi Movement in Kuwait. The Kuwaiti Court of Appeal sentenced him to two years in jail. He was accused of involvement in turmoil acts targeting to destabilize Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah Mohammed Sulaiman Al-Moheiseni
Nationality: Saudi Arabia
A member of Nusra Front terrorist group
Activities: He is the Mufti of Nusra Front in Syria. The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on him for belonging to terrorist groups. He was responsible for recruitment of terrorist elements in Syria and collecting funds to support terrorist groups in Syria.
Abdul Wahab Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al-Hmeikani
Nationality: Yemeni
Activities:
- Money transaction to Al-Qaeda
- Terror bombs in Yemen
- Recruiting militants for IS in Yemen
- Yemeni Minister of Endowments’ Mufti
Khalifa Bin Mohamed Al-Rayan
Nationality: Qatari
Activities: Financing terrorist groups
Notes: Qatari Islamic preacher. The U.S. added him to the list of terrorism financers.
Abdullah Bin Khalid Al Thani
Nationality: Qatari
Activities: Covering up for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a militant held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism-related charges
Notes: Member of the Qatari royal family
Job: Appointed Minister of Endowment in September 1992, Minister of Internal Affairs in 1996 and Minister of Interior in 2001 until 2013
Abdul Rahim Ahmed Al-Haram
Nationality: Qatari
Job: Journalist
Hajjaj bin Fahad Mohammed Al-Ajami
Nationality: Kuwaiti
Job: Salafist preacher
Both U.S. and U.N. accused him of supporting and financing Al-Nusra Front of Al-Qaeda
Accused of supporting Muslim extremists in Syria
Included in U.N.’s Black List of Terrorism
Mubarak Mohammed Al-Ajami
Nationality: Qatari
Gaber Bin Nasser Al-Marri
Nationality: Qatari
Job: Qatari daily “Al-Arab” editor-in-chief
- Wrote several articles criticizing states that fight terrorism
- Wrote several articles against Egypt and its regime
- Used to defend Qatar and its terrorism financing in his article
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Nationality: Egyptian, Qatari
Job: Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars in Doha
Leading figure of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood
Accused of escaping Wadi El Natrun prison, dropping his Egyptian citizenship, inciting violence against Egypt and joining a terrorist organization
He articulated his permission of suicide bombing if required by the group
He is banned from entering the U.S., U.K. and France
Mohammed Jassim Al-Sulaiti
Nationality: Qatari
Job: Rescue Coordinator at Qatar Charity
Name: Ali bin Abdullah Al Suwaidi
Nationality: Qatari
Job: General Manager of El Sheikh Charity Foundation
Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy
Nationality: Qatari
Born in 1965
UN-designated Al-Qaeda sympathizer and facilitator since 2008, and faced funding terrorists accusations in the same year by the Bahraini criminal court.
He is related to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mater mind behind 9/11 attacks.
Al-Subaiy still acts as A Terrorist organizations fundraiser, including Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria Al-Nusra front, Funneling dollars into al Qaeda-related individuals in Iraq and Syria.
He still works for the Qatari Central bank, department of Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing.
“He had lived freely in Qatar for a number of years in the 1990s despite being wanted even at that stage by the US for terror offences,” telegraph reported in October 2014.
Abdulmalek Mohammed Youssef Othman Abdulsalam
Nationality: Jordanian
A Jordanian national who was rumored to serve as the emir of "Lebanon state" cell belonging to ISIS; however, some media reports claimed that he is only linked to Nusra Front not ISIS.
Security reports still confirm that he lives in Lebanon, where he is operating some radical groups.
In 2013, The Lebanese General Security Department detained him over terrorism related convictions.
During his term in Roumieh Prison in Lebanon, where he was believed hatch escape plans for the extremists to help support home-grown terrorist groups.
Ashraf Mohamed Yousef Abdulsalam
Nationality: Jordanian
A Jordanian and Syria-based leader actor at Al- Nusra front leader, who was added to the international terror lists over links to Qaeda and Nusra front
A financer of Nusra Front in Syria and Al-Qaeda in Iraq and strongly related to the Qatari Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy, one of the 9- 11 attacks plotters.
Funneled thousands of dollars to Muhsin al-Fadhli, a senior leader of Al-Qaeda- related Khorasan group, which is operating in Syria.
Ibrahim Issa Haji Muhammad al-Bakr
Nationality: Qatari
A Qatari US treasury secretary- designated terrorist since 2014. Al-Bakr played a crucial role in the attack that targeted Air Base in Qatar in 2006.
Abdul Aziz bin Khalifa Al-Attiyah
Nationality: Qatari
The cousin of Qatari foreign minister and a former member of the Qatar Olympic Committee was sentenced to 7 years in absentia by the Lebanese court of funding international terrorism.
Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyahthe ,the former minister of energy and industry and the incumbent chairman of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority is Al-Attyah’s cousin.
He announced his support to Osama bin Laden and Qaeda Syrian affiliate Nusra Front, alongside with ISIS.
In 2012, he met with to Wolf of Al-Qaeda,” Umar al-Qatari,” who is internationally labeled as Al-Qaeda fundraiser, alongside with Shadi al-Mawlawi.
Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari
Nationality: Qatari
Activities: An Iran-based al-Qaeda facilitator.
Helped facilitating travel for extremists to Afghanistan.
He still holds a valid Qatari Passport and used to work for the Qatari Interior Ministry.
Abdallah Ghanim Mafuz Muslim al-Khawar
Nationality: Qatari
Activities: A U.S. treasury- designated al-Qaeda facilitator and financier since 2011
He used to facilitate travel for jihadists to Afghanistan.
Abdullatif bin Abdullah Al-Khuwari
Nationality: Qatari
Activities: in 2012, he acted as a Al-Qaueda money Facilitator , and was added to the US treasury secretary terror list in 2015
He is related to Mustafa Hajji Muhammad Khan and Ibrahim Issa Hajji, who acted as an al Qaeda facilitator in Pakistan.
Mohamed Said Al-Sokatry
Nationality: Qatar
Activities: Acted as media correspondent to the Syria-based Madad Ahl elsham. His role was mainly premised on raising funds for Al-Nusra Front by a Volunteer Centre to purge Syria from shtiti elements.
He published support tweets to Qassam Brigades.
Abdul Rahman Bin Umair Al Nuaimi
Nationality: Qatar
Activities: He was accused of transferring $600,000 to Al Qaeda via its representative in Syria.
Transferring of monthly $2 million to Al Qaeda in Iraq for a period of time.
Providing finance assistance of $250 thousands of dollars a month to Somali extremist group al-Shabab.
Saad bin Saad Mohammed Sharian Al Kaabi
Nationality: Qatari
Activities: since 2013, Al-Kaabu has acted as Al-Nusra Front fundraiser. Also, he acted as a mediator to deliver ransom money to release hostages held by AL-Nusra, an action believed to be a cover for a possible fund for the terrorist group.
Ali Mohamed al-Sallabi
Nationality: Libyan
Birth place: Benghazi, Libya
Date of Birth: 1963
Occupancy: Writer and political analyst
Sallabi has joined the Muslim Brotherhood group and moved to live in Qatar for a while, where he studied under the leading figure of the outlawed group Sheikh Yusuf al- Qaradawi.
He made several appearances on the Qatari-sponsored TV station Al-Jazeera Network, in which he announced his alliances with al-Qaradawi and his pro-Islamism ideological positions.
He was detained under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, but then turned close to the late ruler’s son Saif el-Islam Gaddafi, in a series of negotiations to release Islamist prisoners.
Abdelhakim Belhadj
Nationality: Libyan
Birth date: May 1, 1966.
Occupancy: He is the former head of the Tripoli Military Council in late August 2011, and was the emir of the defunct anti-Gaddafi Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. He is also the leader of the conservative Islamist al-Watan Party.
In 2004, Belhadj was arrested at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia after he was tracked by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA.) He was then transferred to Bangkok to be investigated before he was deported to Libya; he was held at the Abu Salim prison for seven years.
In September 5, 2011, Belhadj demanded an apology from Britain and the United States after he revealed documents indicating that both countries were involved in a scheme to arrest and torture him in Gaddafi-affiliated prisons. He said that he was investigated then by British detectors.
Belhadj reacted in favor of Qatar after several countries announced severing ties with the tiny gulf state, saying on his Twitter account: “Sad to see such stances from Arab nations.”
Mahdi al-Harat
Nationality: Irish-Libyan
Birth place: Tripoli, Libya
Birth date: 1973
Occupancy: Former co-commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan Civil war; he was also the commander of Liwaa al-Umma, anti-Syrian regime militant group.
He is the founder of the paramilitary group “Liwaa al-Umma” that is fighting against the Syrian government.
In 2012, a Spanish newspaper reported that its correspondent met with three Libyans in Mount Zawiya region in Syria, one of them was Harati. While the Irish government revealed in 2012 that Harati works as an agent with the CIA, where he is assigned to transport financial aid secretly from the agency to the Islamist movements in Libya during their campaign to oust Gaddafi regime at that time.
Ismail Mohamed al-Sallabi
Birth Date: 1976
Affiliations: terrorist Martyr group
Activity: He is considered a dangerous spy in Libya and is dubbed by security experts as “dark bat.”
He has close connections with Al-Qaeda and Brotherhood leaders including Khairat al-Shater, Mahmoud Ezzat and the ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
El-Sadiq Abdul Rahman el-Ghariani
Nationality: Libyan
Birth place: Tripoli, Libya
Birth date: December 8, 1942.
Occupancy: He has been the Grand Mufti of Libya since 2012.
Activities:
- Issued Fatwas (Islamic edicts) inciting murder in Libya.
- Has tight connections with terrorist groups in Qatar.
- Called on Libyans to stop supporting the interim government in Libya “Government of National Accord,” warning them of God punishment.
Hamad Abdullah al-Fatis el-Mary
Nationality: Qatari
Affiliation: Commander of Special forces in Qatar
Activities: Involved in Gaddafi murder and participated in terrorist operations in Libya
Mohamed Ahmed Shawqy el-Islambouli
Nationality: Egyptian
He is the brother of Khaled Islambouli, an army officer who orchestrated and participated in the assassination of the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
He fled Egypt in 80s heading to Iran, where he lived for five years. He is among those labeled “Afghan Arabs,” a term referred to Arabs and Muslims who traveled to Afghanistan to participate in the war against the Soviet Union.
He was sentenced to life in 1999 in absentia in the case known as the “Returnees from Albania” and he had strong relation with Al-Qaeda founder Usama bin Laden.
He currently resides in Istanbul and was arrested by the Turkish authorities in August 2014 but then was released.
Tarek al-Zumar
Nationality: Egyptian
Occupancy: Chariman of the al Gama’a al-Islamiyya, and was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Crimes: He is accused in a number of terror-related cases and charges with inciting violence.
He is involved in Sadat assassination. He currently lives in Qatar and has voiced incitement against Egyptian police, army and current regime.
Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud Mohamed Afifi
Nationality: Egyptian
Birth date: July 14, 1947
Birth place: Menoufia, Egypt.
Occupancy: Professor at the Agricultural Research Institute.
Charges: He is sentenced to death in absentia in the case known over blocking Qalub road in July 2013, following the ouster of the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
Despite his criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood group, Abdel Maqsoud later had close relations with Morsi, who before assuming power was the head of the Freedom and Justice party, the political wing of the outlawed group.
Following the June 30 Uprising, he fled to Qatar, and has a record of radical fatwas (Islamic edicts) like: a wife can seek divorce if her husband was supporting the regime.
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