Egypt:Egypt Arrests Top Aide to Al-Qaeda’s Chief

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Egyptian police arrested a top aide to the Al-Qaeda terrorist group's chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Egypt, security officials said on Monday.

Thirwat Salah Shehata was arrested in a Cairo suburb and is being interrogated, with the sources adding that he had been sentenced to death in absentia in the 1990s for an attempted assassination of a minister.

Shehata is believed to have been a deputy to Zawahiri when he ran the Egyptian Islamic Jihad before joining forces with former slain Al-Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden.

Shehata was reportedly detained in Iran following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The Egyptian officials said he had been in Libya and then Turkey before returning to his homeland.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team