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Egypt arrests Islamist linked to pipeline attacks | |
2011-11-14 | |
(AFP)-- Egyptian security officials have incarcerated a leading member of an Islamist gang suspected of being behind attacks on a pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan. Mohammed al-Teehi of the radical Islamist group Al-Takfeer wal Hijra
On Thursday, two kabooms hit the pipeline. The pipeline, which carries gas through the Sinai and on to Jordan and Israel, had already been attacked six times since former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was toppled in February. Egyptian authorities have on several occasions announced measures to step up protection of the pipeline and try to arrest those behind the attacks. Army experts have also located and defused a number of other devices targeting the pipeline. | |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#1 That's Ayman Al-Zawahiri's old outfit along with Mohammed Atta and other 9/11 terror attack leaders. |
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-11-14 20:43 |