ALI SAYYID MUHAMED MUSTAFA BAKRI

QDi.196
ALI SAYYID MUHAMED MUSTAFA BAKRI
Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee's website: 
8 April 2011
Date(s) on which the narrative summary was updated: 
18 January 2018
Reason for listing: 

Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa Bakri was listed on 29 September 2005 pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 of resolution 1617 (2005) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts of activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida (QDe.004) and Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QDe.003).

Additional information: 

Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa Bakri has been a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (QDe.003). He and a number of others from Egyptian Islamic Jihad joined Al-Qaida (QDe.004) in the early 1990s. He became a member of the Shura Council of Al-Qaida and is a close associate of Al-Qaida leaders Sayf-al Adl (QDi.001) and Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QDi.006).

Mustafa Bakri has provided material support to Al-Qaida, as well as conspired to commit terrorist acts. He is an explosives and chemical weapons expert and has served as an instructor in Al-Qaida’s camps in Afghanistan.

Mustafa Bakri is wanted by the Egyptian authorities as a leading member of Al-Qaida and for being responsible within the organization for matters relating to weapons of mass destruction.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad, headed by Usama bin Laden’s (deceased) deputy, Aiman al-Zawahiri, was responsible for the bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad in 1995. As of 1998, the group received most of its funding from Al-Qaida and in 2001 it merged with Al-Qaida.