The public prosecutor said in a statement Wednesday that 28-year-old telecommunications engineer Mahmoud Abdel Aziz was a bomb-maker and communications specialist for the al-Shabaab
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bully boy group in Kenya and Somalia, and had helped the group communicate with al-Qaeda's Yemen affiliate.
The prosecutor says Abdel Aziz, who went by the nom de guerre "Hakeem al-Masry," was recruited to al-Qaeda in 2009. The statement said he was tossed in the clink
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in Kenya for being in the country illegally and handed over to Egypt, without specifying when.