Security forces detected a four-man cell led by Gamaa Islamiya commander Farid Salem Abdel Qadr Kedwani in a flat in the alleys of a slum district near the Pyramids, and moved in as a matter of routine. In the ensuing hour-long firefight the four militants were killed. Islamist lawyer Montasser Al Zayat claims that the attack violated an understanding that the security forces would not aggressively pursue bands that honored a cease-fire called by the Gamaa leadership last year, instead giving them a chance to hand themselves in.