Egypt arrests a top aide to al-Qaida chief
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CAIRO - Egyptian security officials said Monday police have arrested a top aide to al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri in a Nile Delta city and are interrogating him.
The officials said Tharwat Salah Shehata was caught in an apartment in the 10th of Ramadan district of the city of Sharqiya. They added he has been training militants in eastern Libya, a hub of extremist Islamist militia groups. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
Shehata, a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group that assassinated former President Anwar Sadat in 1981, was sentenced to death for an assassination attempt on a former prime minister in the 1990s. In 2001, his group merged with al-Qaeda. (AP)
