Salem el-Masri
Salem el-Masri is allegedly an explosives trainer with Al-Jihad, who worked first in Afghanistan, and then in Khartoum at the Al-Damazin Farms project owned by Osama bin Laden.Life
El-Masri was believed by Jamal al-Fadl to have trained with Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, before finding himself attached to the Egyptian militant movement led by Ayman al-Zawahiri.
He was part of a group of Al-Qaeda trainers invited to go to Lebanon, after Hezbollah consulted with Iran. The group also included Abu Taha al-Sudan, Saif al-Islam el-Masry, and Saif al-Adel.
According to a testimony by Jamal al-Fadl he taught the proper use of explosives in the Jihad Wahl training camp.
Jamal al-Fadl testified in 2001 that he had seen el-Masri at the Al-Damazin Farms. The Damazine Farm on the outskirts of Damazine City was an al-Qaeda farm that was used for food production as well as a training location.
