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- Full name: Amr Sa’ad Abbas Ibrahim
- Pseudonym: N/a
- Alternatives: Amr Shuweikhi
- Location: Egypt
- Affiliation: Islamic State in Egypt – Ibrahim & Kassem Network [DaIM-IKN]
Amr Ibrahim (º1985) is a senior jihadi from Egypt’s Qena governorate. Following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, he reportedly joined the Islamic Group [GaI; Gema’a al-Islamiya] before becoming a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political front, the Freedom and Justice Party [FJP].1 Following the July 2013 army coup, Ibrahim participated in protests by Islamists in Qena.2
As the army cracked down on the protesters, Ibrahim traveled to Libya where he linked up with local al-Qa’ida-affiliated forces.3 During his stay in the country, he reportedly attended a training camp in Derna. Ibrahim also developed ties to senior operatives of the Partisans of the Holy House [ABaM; Ansar Bait al-Maqdis], such as Hisham Ashmawi and Omar Sorour.4
Over the next years, Ibrahim apparently traveled between Libya and Egypt’s Qena governorate where he set up the cells that would eventually form the Islamic State in Egypt – Ibrahim & Kassem Network [DaIM-IKN]. He trained followers and procured weapons.5 In the beginning of 2016, Ibrahim reportedly traveled to the North Sinai governorate to meet with operatives of the Islamic State’s Province of Sinai [DaIWS; Dawlat al-Islamiya Wilayat Sina’a].6 Later that year, he activated his network.
Ibrahim has since been actively involved in the planning and execution of the DaIM-IKN’s attacks. He helped plan the suicide bombing at a church in Qahira on Dec. 11, 2016.7 Ibrahim further orchestrated the April 2017 bombings of churches in Iskandariya and Tanta.8 He personally recruited, groomed and trained the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks.9 One of the attackers was his brother-in-law.10 Ibrahim has also been linked to the January 2017 attack on police in Naqab, the May 2017 massacre of Christians in the Minya governorate and the August 2017 attack on a police checkpoint near Uqsur.11
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