Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
Interview of al-Arabi with Montasser Al-Zayat, the lawyer of Gama’at al-Islamiya. Al-Arabi accused him of maneuvering, spoke about the termination of his role and the death of the Gama’at al-Islamiya and its weakness. Zayat, instead, calls himself a mediator between the Gama’at al-Islamiya and the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 1999
In the first major shoot-out in the capital since 1996, four militants were shot dead during a police raid in a Pyramids Road slum district.
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 1999
Following one of the fiercest gun battles between Islamic militants and the police since November 1997, the Ministry of Interior announced on September 7, that its troops had shot and killed four suspected militants in their hideout on the outskirts of Giza.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
The US Embassy has issued three-week entry visas to Aisha Hassan and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, the wife and brother of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, spiritual leader of the underground Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. The blind cleric is serving a life sentence in a prison in Rochester, Minnesota, for plotting to bomb...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
The U.S. embassy in Cairo has granted visas to relatives of an Egyptian Muslim spiritual leader to enable them to visit him in a U.S. jail, the London-based Arabic daily "Al Hayat" newspaper reported on September 3. Sheikh Omar, 61, was found guilty in October 1995 of seditious conspiracy and...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
Security forces detected a four-man cell led by Gamaa Islamiya commander Farid Salem Abdel Qadr Kedwani in a flat in the alleys of a slum district near the Pyramids, and moved in as a matter of routine. In the ensuing hour-long firefight the four militants were killed. Islamist lawyer Montasser Al...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Security forces on Tuesday shot and killed four suspected Islamist militants, including a key figure in the underground Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya, at a hideout in a Giza suburb.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Egyptian security forces succeeded in finding the hideouts of four terrorists in Al-Omraniyya in Giza. The gunfight which followed ended with the death of the four terrorists, notable among whom was the famous terrorist leader Farid Kidwani.
Date of source: Monday, September 6, 1999
After he had spent ten years in the American prisons, the American authorities finally permitted Omar Abdel Rahman’s wife and his brother to visit him. His wife and brother will present to him the declarations of the Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs concerning his re-trial and return to Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
An Islamist group rallied Muslims worldwide on August 19 to launch a global campaign for the release of an ailing Egyptian cleric after a US appeals court upheld his life sentence for terrorist activities.