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This press review deals with the history of the al- Tawhīd Wa al-Jihād organization, which is blamed for the deadly bomb attacks on the tourist resort of Dahab in Sinai that killed a number of Egyptians and foreigners and wounded many others.
The Egyptian parliament has approved a two-year extension of the 25-year -old emergency law amidst strong opposition from Muslim Brotherhood and independent members of parliament. Arguing that the government uses the law to silence and oppress the opposition, Muslim Brotherhood members came to the...
Egyptian police have managed to identify the bombers who carried out the April 24 blasts of the tourist resort of Dahab, as three North Sinai Bedouin, Mu’min Fārouq Muhammad ‘Alī, Karīm Ashraf ‘Abdallāh and Mājid ‘Alī Mahmoud. Two days after the triple blasts, two suicide bombers attacked...
The article asserts that the Egyptian government is releasing members of al- Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya in batches after they vowed to renounce violence and reintegrate into society.
Some Egyptian Islamic fundamentalists, who are legally living in European countries, are now being investigated by the security bodies of those countries, under the supervision of the CIA. They have been asked about the sources of finance for Al-Qa’ida and the Jihad organizations and about...
The Egyptian papers started a campaign in reply to the attacks of the American media, which had harshly criticized Egyptian policy and Egypt’s attitude towards the war against terrorism. Some independent, opposition and even official Egyptian papers expressed their opposition to the American...
For the first time the lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya in Egypt appeared on official Egyptian TV, as the guest of the television program "Penetration." He expressed his opinions concerning the reasons that push radical fundamentalists to resort to violence.
The Military Prosecution started to investigate 80 fundamentalists for being members of a secret group that aims at overthrowing the governing authorities. The lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, denied that any of his accused clients had any relations with Bin Laden or with Ayman Al-Zawahry, the...
Thousands of students demonstrated in the universities of Egypt, condemning the American attacks on Afghanistan. They held a massive conference, during which they phoned Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi, who made a statement on the telephone, saying that terrorism was an American fabrication and that what...
The Egyptian authorities have started a large-scale arrest campaign against members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, but the reasons for the detentions remain unclear to most observers.

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