Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
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.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
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...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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...
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
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.
Date of source: Sunday, November 4, 2001
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...
Date of source: Friday, November 2, 2001
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...
Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2001
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.
Date of source: Monday, October 15, 2001
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...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2001
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...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2017
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.