The armed organization was founded by Nasserist army and intelligence officers in the beginning of the 1980s. They managed to kill two Mossad agents in August 1985 and March 1986. Their other two operations failed however: One in 1984, when they tried to assassinate an Israeli agent, the other was in 1987 when they tried to target the CIA Middle East Station Chief, who escaped with a head injury according to the interview.

The members of the organization were rounded up by the government in 1987, and were BRUTALLY tortured by the security services. They were given harsh long prison sentences in 1991. The group’s founder, former intelligence officer Mahmoud Nour Eddin, died in prison in 1998 due to maltreatment, while the rest of the activists were released around 2002.

Most of the group’s members spent their years of incarceration in solitary confinement. For example, Nazmi Shahin, the former army officer, spent 14 out of his 15 years alone in his cell.

You can read the interview here and here.