EXECUTED
- Full name: Mohammed Bakri Mohammed Haroun
- Pseudonym: “Tariq”
- Alternatives: N/a
- Location: Egypt
- Affiliation: Brigade of the Criterion [KaF]
Mohammed Haroun (ºca 1983) was a senior jihadi from Egypt. He became attracted to radical Salafism at a young age. Following the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Haroun came into contact with al-Qa’ida-affiliated jihadi elements. He befriended a Libyan operative of the Nassr City Cell [NCC] who later blew himself up during a raid on his Cairene hideout in October 2012.1 Around the same time, Haroun also got acquainted with senior Egyptian al-Qa’ida operative Tharwal Shehata.2
After the Egyptian army deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in the summer of 2013, Haroun joined the Brigades of the Criterion [KaF; Kataeb al-Furqan]. He was seen as one of the group’s most senior cadres.3 Haroun became a member of the Partisans of the Holy House [ABaM; Ansar Bait al-Maqdis] following the group’s merger with the KaF in late 2013. He served as a key operative of the organization’s mainland branch. Haroun was linked to the Nov. 17, 2013 assassination of a police colonel, the Dec. 24, 2013 suicide car bomb attack on a police station in Mansoura in which sixteen people were killed and the Jan. 26, 2014 bombing of a police headquarters in Cairo.4
Haroun was eventually arrested by security forces during a raid on an ABaM cell based in the village of Arab Sharkas, in the Qalyubiya governorate. He was sentenced to death by an Egyptian court later that year and was hanged on May 17, 2015.5
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