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Egypt got warning on Al Qaida strike one week before suicide attacks CAIRO Egyptian security forces had been placed on alert for an Al Qaida attack before the suicide bombing attacks on early July 23 The damaged Ghazala Gardens Hotel in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, on July 26. A rapid series of car bombs and another blast in this Egyptian Red Sea resort devastated a luxury hotel and coffee shop on July 23A damaged car rests next to a shopping centre in the old market in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt July 24. One week before the attacks, Interior Minister Habib Adli said Egyptian security forces had been alerted to the prospect of an imminent insurgency strike. Adli said insurgents linked to Al Qaida were seeking to destabilize the country. In a police graduation ceremony, Adli said Egypt had come under renewed terror threats in wake of the July attacks by Al Qaida in Britain. Adli, speaking in a July 16 ceremony attended by President Hosni Mubarak, did not elaborate. Egyptian security sources said Adli's reference was to the detention of an Egyptian chemist identified as the bomb expert in the London attacks. So far, Egypt has refused a British appeal to return the chemist, identified as Magdy Al Nashar, to London for investigation. Britain and Egypt do not have an extradition agreement. The security sources said Al Qaida was planning an attack in Cairo in an effort to stop authorities from transferring Al Nashar to British authorities. In the spring of 2005, Egypt was struck by a spate of suicide bombings in Cairo, deemed by authorities as the work of a local cell. A damaged car rests next to a shopping center at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt on July 24. "There is complete security cooperation with the British side, convinced from the interrogation carried out by Egypt, that Al Nashar had no role in these explosions," a senior Egyptian security official was quoted by the state-owned Al Ahram daily as saying on July 19. "Al Nashar will not be released at present. The question of his release will [be addressed] after the end of questioning." Authorities had also increased restrictions on Islamic opposition groups, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood. Authorities extended the detention of four Brotherhood leaders arrested in a regime crackdown in May 2005. About 300 Brotherhood members have been jailed over the past three months for protests that demanded the resignation of the 76-year-old Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt since 1981. One of the detained Brotherhood leaders was Issam Arian, a former parliamentarian jailed for five years during the 1990s on charges of belonging to a group that sought to change Egypt into an Islamic state. Arian was taken into custody in May. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12huqv81j/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122912116/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
