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Africa North
Egypt Arrests Cairo Bombing Suspect
2014-03-11
[An Nahar] Egyptian police said they tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
a man Monday suspected of carrying out a deadly kaboom in the capital Cairo, accusing him of having fought with jihadist groups in Syria.

Since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
in July last year, gunnies have launched frequent attacks on police and troops across the country, but particularly in the Sinai Peninsula.

Four blasts targeting the police hit Cairo on January 24, killing six people. An al-Qaeda-inspired myrmidon group based in the Sinai, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, claimed the attacks.

Police arrested Mohammed Durri Ahmad al-Taliawi, a 35-year-old vendor, on Monday in an apartment in the Nile Delta province of Menufiya, an interior ministry statement said.

Taliawi, who was found in possession of firearms, admitted to carrying out one of the bombings, the ministry said.

The statement also charged that he "took part in terrorist acts in Syria and Libya" and he was wanted on two charges, one involving members of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, and the other connected to Mohammed al-Zawahiri
... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
, brother of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.

On September 5, a jacket wallah detonated his explosives-rigged vehicle as the interior minister passed in a car.

The minister survived, and in a video recorded before the bombing and published online by Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the bomber claimed to have fought in Syria.

Officials in Egypt's security services have said that some myrmidon Islamists have returned from fighting abroad to join jihadist groups in the Sinai.
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