Ashraf Youssef (Jihadi Militant, Egypt)

• Full name: Ashraf Saïd Youssef
• Pseudonym: N/a
• Alternatives: N/a
• Location: Egypt
• Affiliation: Islamic Glory Brigades in the Land of the Nile [KFIAN]

Ashraf Youssef (°ca 1978) was a little-known Egyptian jihadi. He was implicated in a thwarted terrorist plot in 1999.¹ Youssef went into hiding before establishing and leading the small Islamic Glory Brigades in the Land of the Nile [KFIAN; Kataeb al-Fakr al-Islami fi-Ard al-Nil] in the mid-2000s.² He masterminded the Apr. 07, 2005 suicide bombing at Cairo’s Khan el-Khalil market in which three tourists were killed.³

The Egyptian authorities apprehended Youssef on Apr. 29.⁴ At the time of his arrest, he was reportedly making preparations for new attacks.⁵ On May 11, 2005, Youssef was critically injured when he deliberately and repeatedly hit his head against a wall of his prison cell. He succumbed to his injuries eight days later.⁶