Mustafa Ahmed Hassan Hamza

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Egyptian, commander of the military branch of the Islamic Group. He was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court in the Returnees from Afghanistan case. It is believed he took part in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the attempted assassination of President Mubarak in 1995, and the Luxor massacre, which killed more than 60 tourists and Egyptians, in 1997. Believed to be in Iranian control. Also goes by the aliases Abu Hazem, Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed, Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed Ali Khalil; the first of which was the name used in the film Paradise Now.