Taha was also wanted in his native Egypt, where he had been sentenced to death in the 1999 case of the Returnees from Albania. In October 2001 Taha was arrested at the Damascus airport (after fleeing the post-&lt;a href="September%2011%2C%202001%20attacks"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt; invasion of Afghanistan, quite probably) and quietly extradited to Egypt. Al-Qaeda claimed in 2006 that he is still alive and was in custody while some other al-Qaeda propaganda still holds up Omar Abdel-Rahman (who died in the ADX Florence prison) as the "spiritual" leader of the Egyptian side of that body. Official sources did not reveal where Taha is, or even whether he was still alive. However, it was revealed in 2012 that he was freed from prison after the fall of the regime of Hosni Mubarak, and was present at the protest in Cairo in front of the American embassy on 11 September 2012.