Date of source: Monday, October 3, 2005
The wife of the leader of the banned Egyptian Islamic group al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya, Dr. ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān, who is serving a life sentence in U.S. jails, says that her husband’s health is deteriorating due to lack of medical care in U.S. prisons.
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
A prosecution witness in the lawsuit of the attorney of the spiritual leader of the banned Egyptian group of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya Omar Abdel Rahman, accused of helping her client [Abdel Rahman] to contact members of terrorist groups outside the US, of being gluttonous.
Dr. David Edward, who...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The defense team of Dr. Omar Abdel Al-Rahman, the spiritual leader of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya imprisoned in the US, started the procedures for filing a lawsuit against the Egyptian government for what it called “Its lagging in requesting the US to extradite Adel Rahman.” Abdel Rahman is serving a...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 30, 2002
The Egyptian authorities released a significant number of the leaders of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya. Among those released was Mukhtar Hamza, the brother of Mustafa Hamza, the official of the Shura Council of the Gama’at, who was sentenced to death in absentia. Most of those released were involved in...
Date of source: Sunday, May 9, 2004
Al-Ahram daily wrote that “The French magazine Le Point has written that Copts enjoy their full legitimate rights and that controversy over Copts’ rights as Egyptian citizens living on equal terms with Muslims, has ended It is clear from the original Le Point text that al-Ahram printed only part of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2004
An American judge allowed yesterday a fatwa of “the international front against Jews and the Crusades” announced by Ben Laden in 1998 to be included among the evidence directed against civil rights lawyer Lyn Stewart [Lawyer of Omar Abdel Rahman] and Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal deputy of the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
In the wake of the events of [11] September, American security apparatus have dealt with any Arab Muslim as a suspect until he is can be proved innocent.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The article is an interview with Dr. Ali Al-Samman, the Deputy of the Permanent Committee for
Inter-Religious Dialogue. Issues discussed in the interview include
inter-religious dialogue,
acts of violence, extremism, the relation between the Arab World and the West.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is a criticism of Coptic activists in the US, particularly Michael Mounir, the
head of the US Copts Association.
The author explains that Mounir always takes advantage of
some incidents that take place in Egypt, which most times are false, in order to call on the U.S.
to interfere in...
Date of source: Sunday, April 25, 2004
Mountaser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of the fundamentalist groups in Egypt, stated thatKhaled Al-Islamboly, the assassin of Sadat, was not a member of Al-Jihad organization or of the Gama’a Islamiya; he was closely linked to Muhammad Abdel Salam Farag, leader of Al-Jihad in 1981.