Report: Extermist leader arrested for attack on gas pipeline

A senior Egyptian security official says police have arrested the leader of al-Qaeda-inspired group in the Sinai peninsula that was behind attacks on police and on a gas pipeline that transports fuel to Israel and Jordan.

The official said Mohammed Eid Muslih Hamad, also known as "El-Tihi", was arrested without resistance early Sunday in a seaside vacation house in the northern Sinai town of el-Arish. El-Tihi was also being investigated in connection to an August series of attacks into southern Israel, the official said on condition of anonymity in line with his orders. (AP)