Ahmad Isma'il 'Uthman Saleh (أحمد إسماعيل عثمان) was a member of the

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who was living in Albania. He was one of 14 people subjected to

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by the

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prior to the 2001 declaration of a

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. He was charged in the

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. The trial is one of the principal sources of information about Sunni terrorist groups in the 1990s, especially al-Gama'a ...

trial.Egyptian Organization For Human Rights, "The Returnees from Albania," April 1999. He was ostensibly linked to the 1995 plot to blow up the Khan el-Khalili market, as well as the assassination of Speaker of Parliament

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in October 1990.

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Bombings connect to mysterious arrests
August 13, 1998

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Military trial for bombing suspects
, November 5–11, 1998 He had previously been sentenced to death ''in absentia'' in October 1997 by an Egyptian court.

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Black Hole: The 1995 and 1998 Renditions
/ref> Unlike the four colleagues with whom he was arrested, 'Uthman was not returned to Egypt until mid-August; being subjected to

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torture and beatings. Together with the other three Returnees brought from Tirana, his capture and torture were listed as the main reasons for the

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. Following the 1999

trial, he was executed in February 2000.

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