Salem el-Masri (سالم المصري) is allegedly an explosives trainer with Al-Jihad, who worked first in Afghanistan, and then in

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at the

Al-Damazin Farms The Al-Damazin Farms, about south-east of Khartoum, Sudan, was an "enormous" farm owned and run by Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden received the land on which the farms were based in payment by the Sudanese government for construction work he had perf ...

project owned by

Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...

Life

El-Masri was believed by

Jamal al-Fadl Jamal Ahmed al-FadlJamal al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al., trial transcript, Day 2, Feb. 6, 2001. ( ar, جمال أحمد محمّد الفضل, ''Jamāl Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Faḍl'') (born 1963-) is a Sudanese milit ...

to have trained with

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, before finding himself attached to the Egyptian militant movement led by

Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (June 19, 1951 – July 31, 2022) was an Egyptian-born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011, until his death. Al-Zawahiri graduated from Cairo University with ...

. He was part of a group of

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trainers invited to go to Lebanon, after

consulted with Iran. The group also included Abu Taha al-Sudan,

Saif al-Islam el-Masry Saif al-Islam al-Masri ( ar, سيف الإسلام المصري) is the name of a certain member of al-Qaeda. The name is probably, but not certainly, a nom de guerre; ''Saif al-Islam'' means ''Sword of Islam'' and al-Masri means ''the Egyptian'', ...

, and

Saif al-Adel Saif al-Adel ( ar, سيف العدل; born April 11, 1960/63) is a former Egyptian colonel, explosives expert, and a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda who is still at large. Adel is under indictment by the United States According to a testimony by Jamal al-Fadl he taught the proper use of explosives in the

Jihad Wahl training camp The Jihad Wahl training camp was an alleged al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. Prior to 1996, Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, Mohammed Atef and Yaseen al-Iraqi aided Enaam Arnaout in purchasing AK-47s and mortar rounds from a Pashtun tribesman nam ...

testimony, ''United States vs. Osama bin Laden'', trial transcript, Day 2, U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, Feb. 6, 2001. Jamal al-Fadl testified in 2001 that he had seen el-Masri at the Al-Damazin Farms. The Damazine Farm on the outskirts of Damazine City was an al-Qaeda farm that was used for food production as well as a training location.

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