Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999
The British government has no clear policy against terrorism and terrorists. Sometimes, it appeases these serial murderers and at other times it hunts them down. In most cases, it acts at the behest of the US.
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
A British court this week ruled in favor of three London-based Islamists, turning down a police request to question them in connection with suspected involvement in terrorism. The suspects include two Egyptians who are leaders of Ansar El-Shari’a, "Upholders of Islamic Law." They are Mustafa Kamel...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The US has officially charged Ayman El-Zawahri, leader of the underground Jihad group, and his aide, Khaled El-Fawwaz, with involvement in the twin bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last August. El-Zawahri is believed to reside in Afghanistan while El-Fawwaz is under arrest in...
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999 to Wednesday, May 5, 1999
In another blow to Islamist militants, 13 members of the clandestine Vanguards of Conquest, an offshoot of the Jihad group, were handed over to Egypt during the past few weeks by South Africa, Yemen, Kuwait and Syria.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
This trial is the biggest trial of suspected Islamic militants since those that followed the assassination of the late President Anwar Al-Sadat.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
Egyptian prosecutors have remanded in custody for 15 days several suspected members of the militant group jihad, some of whom had been deported from another state, an official daily said on April 15.
Date of source: Thursday, March 25, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Friday, British authorities released three Islamist militants arrested four days earlier, including the leader of Ansar Al-Sharia (Advocates of Islamic Law) and Yasser Serri who was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian military court in 1994 for plotting an attack against the then Prime...
Date of source: Saturday, October 3, 1998
British police swooped down and arrested seven Islamists, including six Egyptians, in a September 23 dawn raid in central London. The swoop came less than a month after Britain’s House of Lords approved the government’s new anti-terror law.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 16, 1998
The British House of Commons and House of Lords passed new legislation aimed at crushing violent Northern Ireland groups but will also hit terrorists from Egypt in England.
Date of source: Monday, August 17, 1998
Al-Arabi found out that the FBI office in Cairo obtained the files of 350 terrorists, including outstanding leaders, through association with a certain security force in Egypt.