In April 1997, they were sentenced to six months, and were subsequently released a month later and ran off without paying their court-appointed attorney Abulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty" [REF].
In June 1998, tired of Mabruk's criticisms of his relationship with Bin Laden, al-Zawahiri allegedly banished him from al-Jihad's central operations.