11 Facts About Thirwat Shehata

Thirwat Shehata was alternately reported to have been sentenced to death, or a light prison sentence, in absentia in 1991 following the al-Jihad assassination of Anwar Sadat.

Thirwat Shehata maintained telephone contact with Jaballah through 1996 when the latter moved to Canada.

In November 1996, Jaballah mentioned that he hadn't heard from "his father" recently, and Thirwat Shehata assured him that he was alright and just having difficulty communicating lately.

Thirwat Shehata promised to raise funds in Canada to help offset Nijab's troubles while Shehata did the same in Azerbaijan.

Thirwat Shehata told him to just send the funds for the release to Daoud's postal box in London instead.

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Eidarous and Thirwat Shehata traveled to Dagestan to plead for the release of the "merchants" who they argued had been unfairly arrested.

Thirwat Shehata received permission to visit the prisoners, and is believed to have smuggled them $3000 which was later confiscated from their cell, and to have given them a letter which the Russians did not bother to translate.

Thirwat Shehata was sent on to Chechnya, where he met with Ibn Khattab.

Two days prior to the 1998 United States embassy bombings, Thirwat Shehata was again contacted by Jaballah, and hours before the bombing happened Mabruk phoned Jaballah and asked him to get Eidarous to call him on Thirwat Shehata's cell phone, and Jaballah passed on the message.

In 2014, Thirwat Shehata left Iran and was believed to have traveled to Libya.

At the time of his arrest, Thirwat Shehata was believed to have been training al-Qaeda militants in eastern Libya.