Shawqi Salama Mustafa Atiya (شوقي سلامة مصطفى عطيه) is an alleged militant leader within
al-Jihad, and ran the Albanian office for the group. He was one of 14 people subjected to
extraordinary rendition
Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism for state-sponsored Kidnapping, forcible abduction in another jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The phrase usually refers to a United States-led program used during the War on Terror, which had t ...
by the
CIA
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prior to the 2001 declaration of a
War on Terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international Counterterrorism, counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campa ...
. He was sentenced as part of 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 in Egypt in 1999.
Life
In 1987, Atiya married ''Jihan Hassan Mohamed Hassan'', the daughter of Hasan Ahmed Hasan, and the couple moved to Saudi Arabia.
[Hafez Abu-Saada, "Compiled complaints of Ahmed Osman Saleh, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Naggar, Shawki Salama Attiya, Essam Abdel Tawwab, and Mohamed Hassan Tita", legal document produced by lawyer, 1998]
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
Rifaat el-Mahgoub Rifat (also transliterated as Rifaat, ar, رفعت, , a conjugated form of the Arabic verb رفع with the meaning "lifted", "elated", "joyous") is a masculine name. Variants also include Refat, Rafat, Refaat, etc. Notable people with the name in ...
in October 1990.
Victoria Advocate
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Bombings connect to mysterious arrests
August 13, 1998al-Ahram
''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...
Military trial for bombing suspects
, November 5–11, 1998[24ur.com]
February 4, 1999
Arrest
Egypt issued an arrest warrant for Atiya, and his five colleagues in Tirana, only on the advice of the United States.
Atiya claimed he was hanged from his limbs, kept in a cell filled with water to his knees, and suffered electrical shocks to his
testicles
A testicle or testis (plural testes) is the male reproductive gland or gonad in all bilaterians, including humans. It is homologous to the female ovary. The functions of the testes are to produce both sperm and androgens, primarily testostero ...
,
[ Mayer, Jane, " The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals", 2008. p. 114] and was threatened with
anal rape.
His wife was captured and tortured for three days in
Lazogli, during which time she was repeatedly beaten, suspended from her limbs and subject to electrical shocks - she eventually said that Atiya had become "secretive" after the couple moved to Afghanistan, where he claimed to be working as a
mechanic
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Duties
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in a garage for
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 ...
.
She said that records showed he was studying bomb-making, and by 1994 was involved in large-scale
forgery
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operations when the couple moved to
Tirana, Albania
Tirana ( , ; aln, Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea ...
.
[Sachs, Susan. ]New York Times
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An investigation in Egypt illustrates al-Qaeda's web
November 21, 2001 - and the prosecutors recommended that they could use her as a witness against Atiya in the trial.
Together with the other three Returnees brought from Tirana, his capture and torture were listed as the main reasons for the 1998 US embassies bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
References
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Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Egyptian torture victims
Forgers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)