Saeed Sayyed Salama (سعيد سيد سلامة) was arrested in June 1998, accused of membership in
al-Jihad, as he was crossing into Egypt from Yemen.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS, ; french: Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité, ''SCRS'') is Canada's primary national intelligence agency. It is responsible for collecting, analysing, reporting and disseminating int ...
Summary of the Security Intelligence Report concerning Mahmoud Jaballah
February 22, 2008. Appendix A. Other sources say he was arrested June 1, 1998 in Saudi Arabia.
[ Amnesty International]
Further information
November 12, 1998
He was accused of overseeing several bomb attacks against American military targets within Saudi Arabia.
[Ibrahim, Amira. Al-Ahram]
Anti-terrorism treaty bears fruit
July 1, 1998
At 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 ...
case, he reported that the militant group had decided to shift their focus to attacking American and French targets after those two countries began helping apprehend and kill Islamic militants, and that targets were chosen to give the group a media platform and secure their "power and credibility".
[Shay, Shaul. "Islamic Terror in the Balkans", 2008. p. 103]
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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