Mohamed Mahmoud

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Mohamed Mahmoud (born June 18, 1985 in Vienna , pseudonym Abu Usama al-Gharib ) is an Austrian Islamist and convicted terrorist . He is considered to be the leader of the Islamist organization Millatu Ibrahim, which was banned in Germany on June 14, 2012 . In November 2018, he is said to have died in an air raid on an "Islamic State" prison.

origin

His father Sami Mahmoud was a member of the then banned Muslim Brotherhood in his home country Egypt . Fearing arrest, he fled to Austria and received asylum, five years later he was granted Austrian citizenship , which was automatically extended to his children who were already born in Austria.

Life

After allegedly making contact with fundamentalist circles via the Internet, he said he was in an al-Qaida training camp in Iraq in 2003 , where he sustained a hand injury that made him unable to do community service in 2005. After that he was a student of the radical Milanese Imam Abu Omar for six months . Back in Austria, he founded the youth organization Islamic Youth Austria in 2005 . The Islamic Faith Community in Austria did not recognize this, but reported it to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism as dangerous. Mahmoud's organization called on Muslims to boycott the election through leaflets prior to the 2006 National Council election. This earned him a police investigation into election obstruction. Austria Widely known he was, as it the journalist Gerhard Tuschla for the spring of 2007 ORF telecast Report interviewed the Drohvideos to the governments of Austria and Germany. He posed as a member of the Global Islamic Media Front and Salafiya Jihadia . The police then observed his computer using a Trojan horse and discovered that he was looking at al-Qaeda-related Internet forums about how an attack on the 2008 European Football Championship could be carried out.

Trial and sentencing

On September 12, 2007, he and his partner were arrested. In November 2007 he wrote an open letter to Justice Minister Maria Berger to obtain relief from prison, which was rejected. The trial began on March 3, 2008, and after only four days of trial, he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment under Section 278b of the Criminal Code (Terrorist Association). His partner was sentenced to 22 months for translating texts for various Islamist organizations. The kidnappers of Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber in the Islamic Maghreb, who sympathize with al Qaeda, demanded the couple's release at short notice in 2008 in order to release their hostages, but the Austrian Foreign Ministry refused. The judgments were overturned on formal grounds, but the retrial ended on February 13, 2009 with the same judgments. While in detention, Mohamed Mahmoud held a two-month hunger strike to obtain his release.

additional

After serving the full sentence, Mohamed Mahmoud was released in September 2011. Just a few days later he appeared under the pseudonym "Abu Usama Al-Gharib" in several videos in which he called, among other things, to "fight against infidels ". In autumn 2011 he moved to Berlin . At the turn of the year 2011/2012, he and his companion and like-minded fellow Denis Mamadou Cuspert moved from Berlin to North Rhine-Westphalia. Mahmoud chose Solingen as his new place of residence , where he briefly acted as imam of the Salafist and now closed Millatu Ibrahim mosque . Cuspert lived in Bonn. On March 2, 2012, the news agency dapd learned that Mahmoud and Cuspert must have moved to Erbach (Odenwald) . On April 26, 2012, Hesse's Interior Minister Boris Rhein ordered Mahmoud to be expelled from Germany. Mahmoud had to leave the Federal Republic within a month. But he prevented an expulsion and went to Egypt. From there he went public again with several videos. In mid-March 2013, a video appeared on the Internet in which he burned his Austrian passport and at the same time threatened terror. Just a few days later, Mahmoud was picked up in the Turkish city of Hatay - with a forged Libyan passport. Apparently he wanted to go to Syria to join an Islamist group there. He was then held in Turkish custody until August 19, 2014 and requested extradition to Austria. After reaching the legal maximum duration, Mahmoud was released from police custody in Konya , subject to conditions. But instead of reporting to the police regularly from now on, he disappeared.

In June 2015, Mahmoud and Abu Umar al-Almani shot two prisoners (allegedly Syrian soldiers) in Palmyra, Syria, and they were filmed during this war crime for an IS propaganda video.

He was married to his partner Mona Salem Ahmed according to the Islamic rite, but she has since separated from him. He has three younger brothers and a sister.

Relation to Turkī al-Binʿalī

Turkī al-Binʿalī , the chief ideologist of the terrorist organization 'Islamic State' , maintained close ties with Mahmoud , according to the constitutional protector Behnam T. Said . In 2013 Mahmoud posted a "permission" ( iǧāza ) from al-Binʿalī on a website , with which Turkī al-Binʿalī gave Mahmoud authority. This ijāza is available online.

Mahmoud also appears frequently in videos of Turkī al-Binʿalī's sermons. The two had apparently met in Libya in the same year that Mahmoud received the ijāza , before they traveled together to the IS-controlled territory. The connections between the two nonetheless go back to earlier years. According to Said, Turkī al-Binʿalī was a marginal figure in the global jihadist scene before his time with the IS organization and was therefore easier for Mahmoud and Denis Cuspert to reach. Turkī al-Binʿalī, however, was looking for supporters to expand his influence. Cuspert and Mahmoud remained loyal to him when the break between IS and the Syrian offshoot of al-Qāʿida , Jabhat an-Nusra , broke out.

Rumor of alleged death

In November 2018, he was said to have died in an air strike on an Islamic State detention center. This was announced by the US company Site, which specializes in monitoring Islamist websites, citing an IS-affiliated news agency. The arrest is said to have taken place because Mahmoud “stepped out of line” and caused a riot. It was presumably related to directional struggles in the Islamic State.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesspiegel interview (September 11, 2012) with HG. Measure
  2. ^ Viennese jihadist Mohamed Mahmoud is said to have died in an air raid . In: The press . November 29, 2018 ( diepresse.com [accessed November 29, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Profile No. 38/2007 page 18
  4. ^ Emil Bobi: Guantanamo, Vienna-Josefstadt. In: Profile. No. 8/2008, p. 36.
  5. ↑ Islamism: Allah beginning is difficult. In: Profile. No. 38/2007, p. 22.
  6. ↑ Wife convicted too  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. news.ORF.at, March 12, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / orf.at  
  7. ^ Sahara hostages: kidnappers want to press free Viennese terror couple Die Presse, March 31, 2008.
  8. ↑ The Austro-Islamist is active again By Erich Kocina, Die Presse October 11, 2011.
  9. ↑ Islamist Video: "Faith Requires Jihad" By Erich Kocina, Die Presse, October 12, 2011.
  10. ^ "Die Welt (January 31, 2012): Berlin Islamists move to North Rhine-Westphalia"
  11. ^ "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (March 2, 2012): Jihad preacher moves to Hesse"
  12. ↑ "Focus (April 26, 2012): Hesse expels radical Salafist preachers"
  13. ↑ Exportislamist wandering The Press print edition April 29 2012th
  14. ↑ Austro-Islamist threatens Austria with terror Die Presse am Sonntag, print edition, March 17, 2013.
  15. ↑ Austro-Islamist: Stopped on the way to jihad The press, print edition, March 22, 2013.
  16. ↑ Hard detention: Mohamed M. is crying in the cell. Kronen Zeitung , April 26, 2013, pp. 10-11 , accessed on April 28, 2013 .
  17. ↑ Salafists: Turkish police release hate preachers. SPIEGEL online , September 24, 2014, accessed on September 25, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Germans and Austrians shoot prisoners in Palmyra, first ISIS murder video in German , Bild.de, accessed: Aug. 5, 2015.
  19. ^ Austro-Jihadist murders in ISIS Video , oe24.at
  20. ↑ Lizzie Dearden: "London postman who joined Isis charged with involvement in massacre and war crimes after denying killing" The Independent of January 5, 2017.
  21. ↑ Manfred Seeh: Looking back: The new life of Mona S. In: Die Presse am Sonntag. Print edition, June 19, 2011.
  22. ↑ Behnam T. Said: Islamic State: IS militia, al-Qaida and the German brigades . CH Beck, Munich 2014, p. 83 and 144 f .
  23. ↑ Florian Gasser: With all brutality. Retrieved January 30, 2016 .
  24. ↑ https://niwelt.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/ist-abu-usama-al-gharib-ein-jahil-oder-ein-talibul-ilm/ (accessed on July 19, 2016). It is the second Ijāza that Turkī al-Binʿalī has issued under his pseudonym Shaykh Abu Bakr Al-Athari.
  25. ↑ IS fighter Mohamed Mahmoud: "When the knife runs down your throat". Retrieved January 30, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Behnam T. Said: Islamic State: IS militia, al-Qaida and the German brigades . CH Beck, Munich, p. 144 f .
  27. ↑ Terrorist from the first German IS video dies in custody . In: www.t-online.de . November 29, 2018 ( t-online.de [accessed November 29, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Mahmoud, Mohamed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Usama al-Gharib, Abu (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian-Austrian Salafist and terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna