Alaa Al-Samahi: Founder of Hasm movement

On Sunday, January 17, 2021, the US State Department
announced the tightening of penalties against Hasm, and includes two of its
leadership on the list of terrorism, Alaa Al-Samahi, founder of Hasm movement,
and Yahya Moussa.
Alaa Al-Samahi
He is one of the leaders of the Brotherhood. He fled
Egypt after the dispersal of the Rabaa and al-Nahda sit-ins. He headed to
Turkey, and from there he directed the planning and implementation of terrorist
operations, under an official mandate from the group’s leaders.
He also founded several terrorist groups affiliated
with the group, including Hasm movement and the Revolution Brigade.
He is the first founder of Hasim Brotherhood, called
Ali Ali Muhammad al-Samahi, famous for Alaa al-Samahi, born in the Gharbia
Governorate in 1986.
Like other leaders fleeing to Turkey, he was the
most prominent participant in the 2013 Rab'a sit-in, as he planned acts of
violence and terror across the country.
Samahi is known to be the leader of what is known as
the Brotherhood-terrorist armed movement, and he is one of the most prominent
leaders of the armed wing, or the so-called "Kamaliyoun" wing, after
its terrorist founder Muhammad Kamal, who was killed in confrontations with the
Egyptian security in 2016.
After his escape to Turkey, Samahi became among
those responsible for the Brotherhood’s specific committees that carry out
terrorist operations inside Egypt.
While he was in Turkey, Alaa Al-Samahi communicated
with one of the young men of the terrorist Brotherhood, Muhammad Al-Saeed, who
was arrested, and he confessed to Al-Samahi, that he was getting 100 thousand
dollars a month to manage and finance the violence operations in Egypt, and he
said that he was communicating with him in Turkey Via Telegram app.
In 2017, "Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates, and Bahrain" announced that they are in light of their
commitment to fighting terrorism, drying up its sources of financing, combating
extremist ideology and tools for spreading and promoting it, and joint work to
eliminate it and immunize societies from it, and within the framework of its
joint effort in cooperation. With partners active in the fight against
terrorism; It announces the addition of two entities, and eleven individuals,
to its banned terrorist lists, as follows:
1. Salem Jaber Omar Ali Sultan Fathallah Jaber.
2. Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah Al-Jubouri.
3. Hassan Ali Muhammad Juma Sultan.
4. Muhammad Sulaiman Haider Muhammad Al-Haidar.
5. Muhammad Jamal Ahmed Heshmat Abdel-Hamid.
6. Elsayed Mahmoud Ezzat Ibrahim Issa.
7. Yahya Al-Sayyid Ibrahim Muhammad Musa.
8. Qadri Muhammad Fahmy Mahmoud Al-Sheikh.
9. Alaa Ali Ali Muhammad Al-Samahi.
The statement added that the two listed entities are
two terrorist institutions that work to promote terrorism by exploiting Islamic
rhetoric and using it as a cover to facilitate various terrorist activities,
and that individuals have carried out various terrorist operations, during
which they obtained, and received direct Qatari support at different levels,
including providing them.
The four countries affirm, through their monitoring,
that the authorities in Qatar continue to support, embrace and finance
terrorism, encourage extremism, and spread hate speech, and that these
authorities have not taken effective measures to stop terrorist activity.