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Death of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) Member Reported in the Caucasus

By Evan Kohlmann

Reliable sources close to Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) Movement in London have reported the death of senior EIJ commander Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi (a.k.a. Abu Sahl) during combat operations against the Russian army in Chechnya, south Caucasus.  Al-Hennawi, a veteran of the Arab mujahideen in both Chechnya and Afghanistan, is famed as having personally accompanied Ayman al-Zawahri on a botched 1996 mission to establish a training camp in Chechnya that ended in near disaster when Zawahri, Hennawi, and another militant were unexpectedly taken captive by Russian security forces.

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