Ahmad Salama Mabruk

In 1981, Mabruk was arrested following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

Released in 1988, Mabruk moved to Afghanistan where Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif was gathering EIJ members.

However, al-Sharif was replaced by Ayman al-Zawahiri as leader of the group in 1991, and the following year Mabruk moved to Sudan.

In 1994, Mabruk's 15-year-old son Musab, as well as the 15-year-old Ahmed, son of Mohammed Sharaf, were captured by the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate and sexually abused.

They were blackmailed with a videotape of the sodomy until they agreed to act as informants against their fathers' group.

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.

After Tariq Anwar found explosives in Musab's possession, al-Zawahiri convened a Sharia court, where Musab confessed he had been given the bomb by the Egyptians which he was told to detonate at the next Shura council meeting.

They were each found guilty of "sodomy, treason, and attempted murder", and sentenced to death by firing squad.

The trial, and the execution, were filmed and copies of the film were distributed by al-Jihad.

The incident "catastrophically undermined" Mabruk's position in the organisation, and when the Sudanese found out about the executions, al-Jihad was ordered to leave the country.

Mabruk ran al-Jihad operations under the front organisation Bavari-C.

He was a vocal critic of the group's close connections to Osama bin Laden, and criticised its leadership for allowing such a close relationship.

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

Throughout 1996, he maintained telephone contact with Canadian Mahmoud Jaballah, who was believed to be an al-Jihad organiser.

At some point in the year, he traveled to Albania for several months where he was employed by the Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage.

His daughter married Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah.

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.

Their leader was traveling under the name Abdullah Imam Mohammed Amin, and trading on his medical credentials for legitimacy.

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.

The trio pleaded innocence, maintaining their disguise and having other al-Jihad members from Bavari-C send the Russian authorities pleas for leniency for their "merchant" colleagues who had been wrongly arrested; and Russian Member of Parliament Nadyr Khachiliev echoed the pleas for their speedy release as al-Jihad members Ibrahim Eidarous and Tharwat Salah Shehata traveled to Dagestan to plead for their release.

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.

In April 1997, they were sentenced to six months, and were subsequently released a month later and ran off without paying their court-appointed attorney Abdulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty".

Shehata was sent on to Chechnya, where he met with Ibn Khattab.

Zawahiri and Mabruk accompanied al-Hennawi to Baku, Azerbaijan where he'd managed to secure himself a position.

In June 1998, tired of Mabruk's criticisms of his relationship with bin Laden, al-Zawahiri allegedly banished him from al-Jihad's central operations.

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.

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.

Without a bureau in Azerbaijan, they contacted the American CIA, who allowed a Canadian-raised Mossad agent to unofficially tag along as seven or eight CIA officers based in Frankfurt oversaw a local police raid on the Baku hotel room on 20 August.

When the Azeri police received confirmation that Saqr was in his hotel room drinking coffee with others, they stormed the room grabbing all three people they found present and brought them still barefoot to the police station.

It was now realised that the Iranian official hadn't yet shown up, and they had instead arrested Saqr, as well as Mabruk and Essam Marzouk.

They were brought to the police station, where the Mossad agent says the police "beat the crap out of them".

His laptop computer was seized, and yielded information on an Albanian cell, leading to a raid which saw five more arrested and extradited to Egypt.

It also ostensibly confirmed the identity of more than a hundred others who were, or had been, arrested based on their links to the group.

An alternative telling of his arrest suggests that he had been arrested outside a Baku restaurant after American authorities had been tipped off by an informant inside al-Jihad.

Under interrogation and alleged torture, Mabruk claimed that al-Jihad had acquired chemical weapons over the past two years and gave up the names and locations of dozens of al-Jihad members.

He was one of 14 people subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA before the 2001 declaration of a War on Terror.

A computer science graduate of Cairo University, Mabrouk graduated alongside Mustafa Hamza.

He then joined the Egyptian Army as a reserve officer.

Ahmad Salama Mabruk (الشيخ أحمد سلامة مبروك; 1956 – 3 October 2016), known as Abu Faraj al-Masri (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.

He was present alongside Abu Muhammad al-Julani at the announcement of the creation of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.