Libyan militant Abdel-Rehim Al-Mesmari
Libyan militant Abdel-Rehim Al-Mesmari was executed on Saturday following his conviction of carrying out a deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis in 2017, a video statement by the Egyptian armed forces said.
The Western Desert attack occurred in October 2017 when Al-Fath Al-Islami, of which Al-Mesmari was a member, ambushed a police patrol in the oasis of Bahariya, killing 16 and injuring 13.
His execution comes nearly a year after he was sentenced to death by an Egyptian military court in November 2019 for convictions related to the deadly October 2017 ambush on police forces.
He was convicted of premeditated murder of policemen, possession of unlicensed weapons and explosives, and joining a terror organisation, as well as being a member of an outlawed group that targets police and army and their institutions.
He was also convicted of kidnapping a police officer during the deadly shootout, who was rescued later in an operation by security forces near El-Wahat highway where a number of terrorists were killed.
Al-Mesmari admitted all the details of the Wahat attack in a media interview in November 2017 after his arrest following a security campaign, during which he expressed no remorse for murdering 16 police officers.
The Wahat attack was the last operation carried out by the Libyan based, Al-Qaeda-affiliated group led by Hisham Ashmawy. Most of the group’s leading members have now been liquidated. Ashmawy was executed last March after he was handed over to Cairo in May 2019 by Libyan authorities.
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