Al-Magdala

## Description:

Al-Magdala is an Egypt-based terrorist organization known for its pervasive nature across the Middle East and into Europe. The group was founded in 2024 after corporate intervention in Egypt following The Fiscal Suicide of 2020 resulted in civil unrest and the reestablishment of an Egyptian government through military coup. The most extreme elements of the Egyptian people, dedicated to pushing out all corporate influence from their country, came together to from Al-Magdala. The group maintains hostile relations with most other criminal groups, except for El-Aly and other Middle Eastern crime families, and despises corporations in all of their forms.

### Organization:

#### Headquarters: Cairo

Like most terrorist organizations, Al-Magdala operates without a centralized leadership structure in order to prevent capture and destruction by Egypt's military or foreign corporations. The group operates under a series of leaders that live across Egypt, the Middle East, and the region formerly recognized as Turkey; these leaders work together to coordinate larger efforts that require the entire group's attention but otherwise work independently. Despite this lack of central command, Al-Magdala maintains a sturdy hold over much of Egypt's desert countryside, and frequently engage in shootouts with authorities. In Egypt, however, Al-Magdala maintains a more centralized structure built similarly to that of an ancient Sultanate or Caliphate.

Al-Magdala recruits from the young and impressionable youths of Egypt that are wronged, harmed, or abandoned by the government and megacorporations. They recruit frequently in order to manage their territory and conduct terror operations on a staggering scale, in addition to their more common criminal activities.

Al-Magdala is primarily a terror organization, but, like most groups of that kind, also participates in a wide range of other criminal activities. These illicit operations include weapon smuggling, drug production and smuggling, human/sex trafficking, prostitution, slavery/forced labor, child labor, kidnapping, piracy, theft (ranging in scale from pickpocketing to bank robberies), extortion, and more. Many of Al-Magdala's leading member, particularly those in Egypt and the Middle East, own slaves and large drug factories/plantations personally, from which they lead their subordinates.

### Equipment:

Al-Magdala tends to make use of makeshift, recycled, or stolen weapons obtained from other sources, scavenged from old battlefields, or stolen from local authorities or rival groups. As such, the group maintains a rather poor level of technological capability; their bases tend not to have internet or electricity at all. The group's technicians and hackers are outsourced to other groups, kidnapped and coerced foreigners, or hidden cell agents in foreign areas.

Al-Magdala also maintains a small fleet of makeshift and stolen boats (ranging in size from dinghies to cargo ships), modified and weaponized civilian cars and trucks, and stolen/recycled tanks and helicopters. The group has rare access to bionic implants and as such does not rely on such equipment, although cells deployed to other countries often obtain such equipment. Al-Magdala does not make use of drugs or other combat stimulants, although they gladly produce and sell such materials.

Al-Magdala conducts guerilla warfare against its enemies, infiltrating the opposition before activating their hidden cells and crippling their foe before the battle even begins. In more open combat, the group suffers from poor training and poor weapons, but is still determined and stubborn; even under torture, no Al-Magdala members have given up their comrades. Due to the aforementioned weaknesses, Al-Magdala avoids open conflict as much as possible, and prefers to focus its efforts on small-scale conflicts and hit-and-run tactics to make the most of their relatively small numbers.