The Ministry of Interior’s National Security Service has successfully thwarted a terrorist plot by the Hasm Movement, the armed wing of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. The plot involved dispatching two terrorist elements to a hideout in the Bulaq al-Dakrur area to carry out hostile operations, with training and planning by terrorist Yahya Moussa.
Here is some key information about Yahya Moussa, the fugitive leader of the Hasm Movement.
Criminal Record
Yahya al-Sayyid Ibrahim Muhammad Moussa is one of the most prominent founders of the Hasm Movement and supervisor of its armed and military structure. He has been sentenced to death in Case No. 2016/261/7122, Nozha Criminal Court, for his role in the assassination of Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat.
He has also been sentenced to life imprisonment in two separate cases: Case No. 2022/6607, Shorouk Criminal Court, for attempting to target several prominent figures, and Case No. 2022/120, East Cairo Military Felonies, for attempting to target the presidential plane and assassinating a police officer.
The US State Department has designated him as a terrorist.
Background:
Yahya Moussa is an Egyptian doctor who joined the Muslim Brotherhood and rose to become a member of the Guidance Bureau. He was appointed as the official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health.
Following the dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda sit-ins in August 2013, he fled to Turkey in September of the same year. He is currently the head of the armed wing of the terrorist group and is wanted by Interpol, having been convicted in numerous terrorism cases.
Terrorist Activities
Moussa was involved in the targeting of the St. Peter’s Church in the cathedral by preparing the suicide bomber Mahmoud Shafiq, as well as supervising the targeting of churches in Tanta and Alexandria, resulting in dozens of casualties. He coordinated with members of a terrorist movement to reconstituted armed cluster groups of Brotherhood members operating on the domestic scene.
He received open funding to carry out terrorist operations. The Ministry of Interior’s National Security forces have arrested a terrorist cell planning to revive the terrorist group’s activities and carry out hostile operations targeting security and economic facilities. The cell was dealt with, resulting in the deaths of two terrorists, the martyrdom of a citizen, and the injury of a police officer in Bulaq al-Dakrur.
This operation is part of the Ministry of Interior’s ongoing efforts to preserve the state’s capabilities and confront the threat posed by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood.