Cairo: Egyptian police have arrested 19 people with suspected links to al-Qaeda, says top official.
Egypt’s interior minister told to a state-run newspaper on Tuesday that the arrested accuseds were hailed from Tunisians and Libyans.
Habib al-Adly said the group was using Egypt as a transit point from which they would travel to Iraq to join al-Qaeda groups there. He said that security forces had confiscated weapons and ammunition.
The minister did not inform that when and where they were arrested but he said that the group was not behind a church bombing on New Year’s Day that killed 23 people and wounded nearly 100 others in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria.
On Sunday, al-Adly announced that the government believes the church attack was carried out by the Army of Islam, a Palestinian group linked to al-Qaeda.
The Army of Islam denied any involvement, in a swift response to the allegations.
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