Essam Al-Qamari (عصام القمري) was a decorated tank commander and Major in the Egyptian army who smuggled weapons and ammunition from army strongholds for al-Jihad as a "disciple" of the late Sayyid Qutb.^[1][2]

In February 1981, Egyptian police arrested a man smuggling weapons who was carrying a map of the military's tank placements. Realising that he would likely be implicated, al-Qamari took the opportunity to disappear.^[2]

In his book, Al-Zawahiri as I Knew Him, Al-Zayyat maintains that under torture of the Egyptian police, following his arrest in connection with the murder of Anwar Sadat in 1981, Ayman al-Zawahiri revealed the hiding place of al-Qamari, who was suspected of playing a "key role", leading to his "arrest and eventual execution."^[3]

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