An alleged former military chief of
al-Jihad, Adil Awad Siyam (عادل عوض) (
kunya: ''Abu al-Nadr'') was killed by police in an April 1994 operation in
Giza, Egypt.
[Asharq al-Awsat]
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Alleged actions
Known to carry a Yemeni passport and referred to as the "ghost man", Siyam was accused of overseeing a failed attempt to kill the
warden
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''Warden'' is etymologically identic ...
of
Turah prison, as well as
Interior Minister
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
Hasan al-Alfi.
He was also involved in one of the plots to assassinate
Hosni Mubarak.
Death
On April 9, Egyptian General
Raouf Khairat was assassinated in Cairo, leading to retaliatory raids against suspected militants.
[Keesing's Record of World Events, Assassination of senior security official Government response, April 1994]
Siyam's death was alternately reported to have occurred on April 4, before the General was even killed, or on April 21, eight days after his own death was announced by Interior Minister al-Alfi.
A cache of explosives and
small arms
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The first firearms originated in 10th-century China, when bamboo tubes c ...
was said to have been seized in the raid.
[International Publications Service, "The Middle East and North Africa", 1995. p. 372]
Aftermath
Siyam had a daughter who in turn married
Isam Muhammad Khalil.
References
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1994 deaths
Year of birth missing
Deaths by firearm in Egypt
Yemeni military personnel