Ahmad Ibrahim al - Sayyid al - Naggar Ahmad Ibrahim al - Sayyid al - Naggar was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad . The Jewish lobby group ADL dubbed him the " propaganda chief " of the militant organisation . He was one of 14 people subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA prior to the 2001 declaration of a War on Terror . Life . His permanent address was on al - Shaikh al - Husari street in Giza . In 1991 , he was sentenced " in absentia " to three years imprisonment in the al - Jihad case arising from the assassination of Anwar Sadat . However , he fled the country in 1993 when Adil al - Sudani got him a false passport in the name of " Abdel Raheem Mohammed Hussein " and bought him an October 18 ferry ticket from Nuwaiba to Jordan , and told him to wait for a phone call at the Jordan River Hotel in Amman . When he arrived the next day , he received a call from Mahmud al - Deeb who told him to book a flight four days later to Sanaa , Yemen to meet with him . When al - Naggar arrived , he was greeted by Ayman al - Zawahiri and his brother Muhammad al - Zawahiri , Ahmad Salamah Mabruk , Morgan Salem and Thirwat Shehata who assured him that al - Jihad took care of its own , and they were glad to see him safe . In 1994 , he was asked to travel to Sudan , and was subsequently met by al - Zawahiri , who asked him to oversee civil organisation of al - Jihad . In October of the following year , Zawahiri asked him to instead travel to Yemen to oversee civil operations there ; but three months later was told to travel with his fake passport in the name of " Ahmed Rajab Mohammed " , to take a job as a teacher with the Haramain charity in Tirana , Albania . He also led the " Centre for Islamic Heritage " . Following the 1996 rise of the Taliban government in Afghanistan , al - Naggar tried to link al - Jihad to the new government , noting their shared ideals . Capture , trials , execution . He was sentenced in death in absentia in an Egyptian military court on October 15 , 1997 for the crime of membership in al - Jihad , and possession of weapons . He was ostensibly linked to the 1995 plot to blow up the Khan el - Khalili market , as well as the assassination of Speaker of Parliament Rifaat el - Mahgoub in October 1990 . The trial was condemned as " unfair " by Amnesty International . In 1998 , Bary asked al - Naggar to claim asylum in the United Kingdom , so he could help convince Hani Sibai to support the Algerian GIA in media communiques . He was arrested on July 2 , 1998 as he stepped off the plane in Cairo , having been deported from Albania with the help of the CIA . His wife was also arrested . He was tried in the 1999 Returnees from Albania trial at which he was defended by Montasser el - Zayat . He was tortured for nine months ; locked in a room with water up to his knees 24 hours a day . When taken to SSI headquarters in Lazughli Square and questioned by Captain Yasir Azzulddin , his hands and feet were tied , as interrogators applied electric shocks to his nipples and penis . Under torture , al - Naggar admitted that al - Jihad had acquired anthrax from an unnamed East Asian country for $ 3 , 695 . He later claimed his confessions were only a result of this torture . He was sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment . In November , he was transferred to Tora prison , where Amnesty noted he was at less risk of torture or sudden execution . Together with the other three Returnees brought from Tirana , his capture and torture were listed as the main reasons for the 1998 United States embassy bombings . He was hanged on February 23 , 2000 at al - Isti ’ naf prison , due to the earlier death sentence levied against him .