Essam Marzouk
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a member of
Al-Qaeda and
Egyptian Islamic Jihad| Essam Marzouk | |
|---|---|
| Born | Cairo, Egypt |
| Other name(s) | Essameddin Hafez,[1]Isam al-Din Hafez,[2]Fawzi Mesit Ibn Fahd Al Harbi,[3]Abu Thir El Masri[3]Adnan[3] |
| Alleged to be a member of | Al-Qaeda and
Egyptian Islamic Jihad |
| Penalty | 15 years imprisonment |
| Status | Imprisoned |
An Egyptian resident of British Columbia,[4] Essam Hafez Mohammed Marzouk (عصام حافظ محمد مرزوق) arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1993 as a refugee fleeing persecution in Pakistan.[5][6] He was one of 14 people subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA (in 1998, from Afghanistan to Egypt) prior to the 2001 declaration of a war on terror.[7] Marzouk was the contact point for a bin Laden terrorist cell in Canada.[8]
In 1999, he was sentenced in Egypt to 15 years hard labour for being a member of the Egyptian terrorist group al-Jihad and for his role as an al-Qaeda training camp supervisor that trained two of the embassy bombers in the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[9][10] Marzouk was released from prison during Mohamed Morsi's presidency and was later arrested in Malaysia after a failed terrorist plot then got deported back to Egypt.[11][12]
Born to a wealthy engineer in Cairo, Marzouk grew up in a 5th-storey apartment at 2 Doctor El-Mahroky Street in the suburban Mohandeseen district of Cairo.[4] Following his service in the Egyptian Army, he told his father he wanted to study in the United States, but instead moved to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at the age of 19.[4][13]
In 1986 and 1987, he worked as an ambulance driver at the Red Crescent hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan where he met Egyptian-Canadian Ahmed Khadr,[14][15] and later worked with the Muslim World League.[4]
From 1988-1993 he is alleged to have run an Afghan training camp for al-Jihad.[16]
