[Al Ahram] Egyptian authorities have tossed in the calabooseDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
an Islamist myrmidon incarcerated
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
over the liquidation of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, for plotting kabooms on behalf of Al-Qaeda since his release from prison in 2012, security sources said on Tuesday.
Nabil Al-Maghraby, a former naval intelligence officer who the sources said was a key Al-Qaeda operative, was arrested on Sunday. He has been linked to an ex-army major who tried to assassinate the Interior Minister in September, the sources said.
Maghraby had been released from jail after serving 31 years for taking part in the 1981 liquidation of Sadat. The Egyptian leader was killed by Islamist members of the military opposed to his 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
Since then, Egypt has been highly sensitive about Islamists infiltrating its armed forces, the biggest in the Arab world.
Maghraby was arrested in the northern Delta town of Qalubiya, 35 km (20 miles) from Cairo.
"He has been arrested for being a part of a terrorist organization and for planning kabooms in the country," one of the sources said.
Authorities believe he was a close associate of former army major Waleed Badr, who allegedly went
kaboom!on September 5 in a failed attempt
Curses! Foiled again!
to kill the Interior Minister in Cairo.
A Sinai-based Islamist myrmidon group called Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis released a farewell video of Badr urging Musselmens to kill government officials in Egypt, a strategic US ally.
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist snuffies based in the Sinai have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since the army deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
in July amid mass nationwide protests against him.
The majority of the attacks have been carried out in the largely lawless Sinai Peninsula, but some attacks like the one on the Interior Minister have raised fears that an Islamist insurgency is taking hold elsewhere.
Maghraby was released from jail in 2012 after Morsi pardoned about 100 political prisoners, mostly Islamists.