| And so Mr. el-Ashmawi continues to wend his way through the minor Hell that is the Egyptian court system. After several more iterations, and assuming the Elders of Islam concur with the sentence once consulted, there will be a final appeals court and then a final sentence passed — at which point we will finally be able to move this case from Page 2 to Page 1. |
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...to one of the country’s most high-profile holy warriors for his participation in scores of attacks on government targets.
The court convicted Hisham el-Ashmawi,
| ....also known as Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant). El-Ashmawy graduated in 2000 from the Egyptian military academy, then within eleven years earnt himself a dishonourable discharge. He subsequently joined Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, the local branch of Al Qaeda, for whom he had too much fun applying the training given him by the Egyptian taxpayers. When they became ISIS in the Sinai, he left to form the Al Qaeda linked al-Mourabitoun, which at some point wandered off to Libya where the LNA caught him and sent him back. Egypt convicted him in absentia in 2014, leaving very little for the court to do now... |
Egyptian authorities link el-Ashmawi, 40, to several major attacks, including a 2013 attempt to assassinate Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim and a 2017 ambush that killed 30 Christian pilgrims. He is also been convicted of leading assaults on security forces near Egypt’s desert border with Libya.