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2019-05-29 Africa North
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Libyan National Army hands wanted terrorist Hesham El-Ashmawy to Egypt
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 [AlAhram] Egypt's most wanted terrorist was captured in Libya in 2018; he was successfully extradited to Egypt on Tuesday night after a high level meeting between head of Egypt's general intelligence and LNA commander Khalifa Haftar.
Egypt has successfully secured the transfer of Hesham El-Ashmawy,
| ...also in our archives under the spelling Hisham al-Ashmawy, the former Egyptian special forces officer is most recently emir of Ansar al-Islam and al-Mourabitoun, both connected to Al Qaeda in North and West Africa. ... |
one of the most wanted bully boyz in Egypt, from his place of detention in Libya to Egypt on Tuesday night, according to a statement issued by the Media Office of the Egyptian Armed Forces
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Egyptian TV stations showed live footage on Tuesday night of Egyptian special forces walking a blind-folded and heavily-guarded El-Ashmawy off an Egyptian Armed Forces military plane onto Cairo Airport.
The highly secured transfer operation, which involved various Egyptian special forces branches, followed a meeting earlier on Tuesday of the Head of Egypt’s General Intelligence General Abbas Kamel with the Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) General Khalifa Haftar
 ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
at the LNA headquarters in al-Rajma, Libya.
The meeting discussed the operations to combat terrorism in the region.
El-Ashmawy headed one of the terrorist organizations in the city of Derna, and carried out a number of bloody terrorist operations both in Libya and Egypt, the Egyptian Armed Forces said.
The Libyan armed forces captured El-Ashmawy during the war to liberate Derna, the statement explained.
El-Ashmawy was handed over to Egyptian authorities according to the long-standing judicial agreement between Egypt and Libya, and after the carrying out of all required procedures and the conclusion of investigations by the armed forces with him, the statement explained.
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in October 2018 by the LNA in Libya’s Eastern city of Derna.
His top associate Safwat Zidan was also arrested in Derna in the same month.
El-Ashmawy, who is considered one of Egypt’s top wanted and most dangerous bully boyz in the past six years, was born in 1978 and graduated in 2000 from the military academy.
In 2007, a military court transferred El-Ashmawy to an administrative post before his dismissal from the army in 2011.
He later joined the North Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis terrorist group.
El-Ashmawy, also known as Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant), is considered among the most dangerous bully boyz linked to many attacks in Egypt.
He broke away from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis following its swearing of allegiance to ISIS, announcing the formation in July 2015 of the Mourabitoun organization in Libya, which is loyal to the al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
In Libya, El-Ashmawy fled Sirte to Derna under pressure from the LNA operations.
El-Ashmawy is believed to have been involved in an liquidation attempt on former Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, and the murder of top prosecutor Hisham Barakat, as well as the attack on Egyptian border guards in February 2015, which resulted in the death of 29 Armed Forces personnel.
He is also believed to be behind a deadly attack on Christian pilgrims in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate in May 2017, which killed 29 people.
In January 2015, his group was suspected of staging a multi-pronged attack on the headquarters of the Army Battalion 101 Headquarters in El-Arish in North Sinai, which killed 30 soldiers and officers.
An Egyptian military court sentenced him in absentia, along with 13 other terrorists, to death over the New Valley massacre in Farafra on 19 July 2014, where 22 border guards were killed. 
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