Ahmed Refai Taha, the Glossary
Refa'i Ahmed Taha (رفاعي أحمد طه; June 24, 1954 – April 5, 2016) or Refa'i Ahmed Taha Musa or Ahmed Refa'i Taha, alias Abu Yasser al-Masri (أبو ياسر المصري) was an Egyptian leader of a terrorist component of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, having succeeded "The Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman in that role after the latter's arrest in 1993 and imprisonment for life in 1995.[1]
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35 relations: ADX Florence, Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda, Arabic, As-Sahab, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Central Intelligence Agency, Damascus International Airport, Egypt, Extraordinary rendition, Fatawā of Osama bin Laden, Hani al-Sibai, Hosni Mubarak, Idlib, Istanbul, Life imprisonment, London, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim, Mother Jones (magazine), NBC News, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Osama bin Laden, Rabb, Reactions to Innocence of Muslims, Returnees from Albania, September 11 attacks, Syria, The Washington Post, United States Department of the Treasury, War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War on terror, 1998 United States embassy bombings.
- Al-Nusra Front members
- Assassinated al-Nusra Front members
- Egyptian al-Qaeda members
- Egyptian prisoners sentenced to death
- People extradited from Syria
- People extradited to Egypt
- Prisoners sentenced to death by Egypt
ADX Florence
The United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (USP Florence ADMAX), commonly known as ADX Florence or the Florence Supermax, is an American federal prison in Fremont County to the south of Florence, Colorado, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
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Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya
(الجماعة الإسلامية, "Assembly of Islam") is an Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement, and is considered a terrorist organization by the United Kingdom and the European Union, but was removed from the United States list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations in May 2022.
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Al-Nusra Front
Al-Nusra Front, also known as Front for the Conquest of the Levant, was a Salafi jihadist organization fighting against Syrian government forces in the Syrian Civil War.
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Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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As-Sahab
As-Sahab Media (Arabic: السحاب, "The Cloud") is the official media wing of Al-Qaeda's core leadership based in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (translit; 19 June 195131 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022. Ahmed Refai Taha and Ayman al-Zawahiri are Egyptian al-Qaeda members, leaders of Islamic terror groups and People imprisoned on charges of terrorism.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Damascus International Airport
Damascus International Airport (Maṭār Dimašq ad-Duwaliyy) is the international airport of Damascus, the capital of Syria.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism for state-sponsored kidnapping in another jurisdiction and transfer to a third state.
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Fatawā of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden authored two fatāwā in the late 1990s.
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Hani al-Sibai
Hani Mohammed Yusuf al-Siba'i (هاني محمد يوسف السباعي) (born 1 March 1961 in Qaylubiyah, Egypt) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar who was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and now lives in London as a political refugee.
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Hosni Mubarak
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011.
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Idlib
Idlib (ʾIdlib,; also spelt Idleb or Edlib) is a city in northwestern Syria, and is the capital of the Idlib Governorate.
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Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
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Life imprisonment
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), formerly the Monterey Institute of International Studies, is a graduate institute of Middlebury College, a private college in Middlebury, Vermont.
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Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim
Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim (محمد حسن خليل الحكيم) alias Abu Jihad al-Masri (أبو جهاد المصري) (died October 31, 2008) was an Islamic terrorist. Ahmed Refai Taha and Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim are Egyptian al-Qaeda members.
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Mother Jones (magazine)
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a nonprofit American progressive magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, environment, human rights, health and culture.
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
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Office of Foreign Assets Control
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Omar Abdel-Rahman
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (عمر عبد الرحمن), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States. Ahmed Refai Taha and Omar Abdel-Rahman are leaders of Islamic terror groups.
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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. Ahmed Refai Taha and Osama bin Laden are leaders of Islamic terror groups.
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Rabb
Rabb (lord) is an Arabic word to refer to God as Lord The term is used by Arabs and Punjabis.
Reactions to Innocence of Muslims
The release of the anti-Islamic short film Innocence of Muslims triggered numerous demonstrations across North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
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Returnees from Albania
The case of the Returnees from Albania was a massive criminal trial in an Egyptian military court from February to April 1999.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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United States Department of the Treasury
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department.
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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.
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War on terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.
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1998 United States embassy bombings
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998.
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See also
Al-Nusra Front members
- Abu Firas al-Suri
- Abu Humam al-Shami
- Abu Khayr al-Masri
- Abu Maria al-Qahtani
- Abu Mohammad al-Julani
- Abu Omar al-Turkistani
- Abu Yusuf Al-Turki
- Ahmad Salama Mabruk
- Ahmed Refai Taha
- Eric Harroun
- Moner Mohammad Abu Salha
- Nusret Imamović
- Sami al-Oraydi
Assassinated al-Nusra Front members
- Abu Firas al-Suri
- Abu Khayr al-Masri
- Abu Omar al-Turkistani
- Abu Yusuf Al-Turki
- Ahmad Salama Mabruk
- Ahmed Refai Taha
Egyptian al-Qaeda members
- Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah
- Abu Ayyub al-Masri
- Abu Hamza Rabia
- Abu Khayr al-Masri
- Abu Muhsin al-Masri
- Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri
- Abu Ubaidah al-Masri
- Abu Walid al-Masri
- Abu Yaqub al-Masri
- Abu Zubair al-Masri
- Adel Abdel Bari
- Ahmad Salama Mabruk
- Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali
- Ahmed Refai Taha
- Ali Mohamed (double agent)
- Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri
- Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Hamden Khalif Allah Awad
- Ibrahim al-Banna
- Khaled Abu al-Dahab
- Khalid Habib
- Mahmud Abouhalima
- Midhat Mursi
- Mohamed Atta
- Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim
- Mohammed Atef
- Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah
- Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil
- Saeed al-Masri
- Saif al-Adel
- Saif al-Islam al-Masri
- Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif
Egyptian prisoners sentenced to death
- Ahmed Refai Taha
- Ahmed Urabi
- Aziz Ali al-Misri
- Gaddafi Farag
- Hassan al-Hudaybi
- Hisham Talaat Moustafa
- Ibrahim Abdel Hady Pasha
- Mohamed Morsi
- Mohammed Badie
- Mohsen al-Sukkari
- Muhammad al-Zawahiri
- Sami Sharaf
- Sharawi Gomaa
- Ahmed Refai Taha
- Ahmed Refai Taha
- Essam Marzouk
- Issam Alim
Prisoners sentenced to death by Egypt
- Ahmed Refai Taha
- Fritz Katz
- Gaddafi Farag
- Hassan al-Hudaybi
- Hisham Talaat Moustafa
- Mohamed Morsi
- Mohammed Badie
- Mohsen al-Sukkari
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Refai_Taha
Also known as Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Refai Ahmed Taha.