The national security agency has intercepted a number of phone calls between those persons and some loyalists that turned out to have been made from inside Egypt, the sources added.

“The armed forces coordinated with the police to deploy several fixed and mobile patrols with weaponry and tanks on the roads and valleys the organization could use,” they added. [Mamdūh Hassan, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, June 16, p. 3] Read text in Arabic