Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
According to Mustafá Rajab,
Jamā‘ah Islamīyah has
tried to change its radical position to more a social and democratic
one. It has issued books and statements
portraying its new philosophy, which is considered to be repentant for
everything it has done in terms of
violence against the...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Al-Qāhirah publishes the
interrogation report of Ayman al-Zawāhrī, Usāmah Bin Lādin’s right-hand man, and
suspect no. 113 in the jihād organization case, who planned and carried out the assassination of
al-
Sādāt in October 1981.
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
The author responds to comments received about his earlier writings in this series and ponders the necessity of truthfulness, using an old, unpublished letter of current Pope Shenouda.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 12, 2006
The author publishes a series of articles containing the
original
texts from the 1981 investigations with Ayman al-Zawāhrī, al-Qā‘idah’s
second
-in-command, on charges of involvement in the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadāt.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
In a
recent statement, Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah regretted that it
planed and carried out the
assassination of late president al-Sādāt.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
‘Ādil Hammūda warns against trusting repentant Islamic terrorist
groups. These groups
are a “danger lurking in the dark,” awaiting the opportunity to attack Egypt’s security and
stability, he
says.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
Muntasir al-Ziyāt discusses the events and political context preceding the
assassination of
al-Sadāt and describes the motives of the perpetrator, Khālid Ahmad Shawqī
al-
‘Islāmboulī.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2006
The author
refutes claims made by figures in the outlawed Muslim
Brotherhood group that Egyptian novelist Najīb
Mahfūz has come from under the group’s cloak, arguing
that Mahfūz’s relations with the
Brotherhood have never been good as they claim.
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2006
70 fanatics in Alexandria were arrested on suspicions of
belonging to al-Qā‘idah. The Islamic group claims that they are innocent of the attempt to
assassinate the author Nagīb Mahfūz.
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001 to Friday, October 19, 2001
Bin Laden and his terrorist followers, who escaped from Egypt, imagined that Egypt could be a stage for their malicious operations. Their first target was to strike the symbols of the state, the cultured and the intellectuals, and to create a moral dread within Egyptians. Their second target was...