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1. SUMMARY: THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY COURT HEARING THE CASE OF 107 EGYPTIAN DEFENDANTS CHARGED WITH TERRORIST OFFENSES, POPULARLY KNOWN AS THE "" CASE, ISSUED VERDICTS APRIL 18. NINE DEFENDANTS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH, BUT ALL OF THESE WERE DEFENDANTS IN ABSENTIA (INCLUD ING ONE EGYPTIAN/AMERICAN DUAL NATIONAL). END SUMMARY.

2. THE SUPREME MILITARY COURT IN CAIRO ISSUED VERDICTS APRIL 18 IN THE TRIAL OF 107 EGYPTIANS ACCUSED OF TERRORISM, MANY OF WHOM WERE "RETUBNED" TO AS

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MEMBE-RS OF THE "JIHAD GROUP IN EGYPT" (KNOWN AS OR "EIJ"). THE TRIAL, MILITARY UNCLASSIFIED COURT CASE 1998/8, IS POPULARLY KNOWN HERE AS THE "RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA" SINCE FOUR OF THE INITIAL DEFENDANTS WERE EIJ MEMBERS PREVIOUSLY RESIDENT IN ALBANIA (SEE REFTELS FOR EARLIER REPORTS ON THE TRIAL AND DEFENDANTS) •

3. THE VERDICTS WERE AS FOLLOW:

9 DEFENDANTS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH. ALL OF THESE DEFENDANTS WERE TRIED IN ABSENTIA AND ARE BELIEVED TO REMAIN OUTSIDE OF EGYPT. THEY rNCLUOg:

AYMAN MUHAMMAD RAEI, AL-ZAWAHIRI, EIJ LEADER;

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PAGE 03 CAIRO 02876 181630Z ADEL SAYYED ABDEL QUDUS (RECEIVED AN EARLIER DEATH SENTENCE FOR HIS ROLE IN THE ATTEMPTED IN 1993 OF EGYPTIAN PRIME MINISTER ATEF SIDKI); THARWAT SALAH SHEHATA (ALSO RECEIVED DEATH SENTENCE FOR ROLE IN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SIDKI); TAREQ ANWAR SAYYED AHMAD; ALI ABUL SU' UD MUSTAFA MUHAMMAD (A DUAL EGYPTIAN/AMERICAN NATIONAL SUPPOSEDLY LIVING IN CALrFORNrAJ ; NASR FAHMY HASR HASANEIN; ABDALLAH MUHAMMAD RAGAB ABDEL RAHMAN; ABDEL AZIZ MOUSSA DAWOUD AL-GAMAL.

11 DEFENDANTS WERE SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT (IN EGYPTIAN TERMINOLOGY CALLED 25 YEARS IMPRISONMENT, A TERM WHICH IS RENEWABLE BY PRISON AUTHORITIES) .

18 DEFENDANTS WERE SENTENCED TO 15 YE.ARS IMPRISONMENT, INCLUDING DUAL EGYPTIAN/AMERICAN NATIONAL KHALED AL-SAYYID "ABU AD-DAHHAB" WHO WAS ARRESTED IN EGYPT AND WAS PRESENT FOR THE TRIAL.

49 DEFENDANTS WERE SENTENCED TO OTHER PRISON TERMS RANGING FROM 10 YEARS TO ONE YEAR.

20 DEFENDANTS WERE ACQUITTED. ONE OF THESE WAS ABDEL MUNEIM GAMAL EDDIN, WHO HAS BEEN IN DETENTION IN EGYPT SINCE THE EARLY 1990'S. ALTHOUGH BELIEVED

TO BE A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE TERRORIST GROUP II THE ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT", GAMAL EDDIN HAS BEEN TRIED AND ACQUX'I"I'ED ON TERRORISM CHARGES IN THREE CASES, INCLUDING THIS ONE.

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'(REFTEL) . THE STATEMENT IS SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE VANGUARDS, CODE NAMED "ABDALLAH MANSOUR"; AL-HAYAT JOURNALIST MUHAMMAD SALAH TOLD US HE UNCLASSIFIED DOESN'T :£

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QURANIC VERSE: GO FORTH WHETHER EQUIPPED LIGHTLY OR HEAVILY AND STRIKE AND STRUGGLE WITH YOUR GOODS AND YOUR PERSONS IN THE CAUSE OF GOD. THAT IS THE BEST FOR YOU IF YOU :£

IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MERCIFUL, THE COMPASSIONATE

AL-JIHAD ...VICTORY OR MARTYRDOM

YOU, STRUGGLING, PATIENT BROTHERS BEHIND BARS IN THE UNJUST COURTHOUSES OF THE REGIME, REMAIN PATIENT BECAUSE JIHAD (HOLY WAR) IS VICTORY OR MARTYRDOM. QURANIC VERSE: MEN SAID TO THEM: "A GREAT ARMY IS GATHERING AGAINST YOU" AND FRIGHTENED THEM. BUT IT ONLY INCREASED THEIR FAITH. THEY SAID: "FOR US GOD SUFFICES AND HE IS THE BEST HANDLER OF AFFAIRS."

THE ARBITRARY VERDICTS ISSUED BY THE REGIME AGAINST YOU WILL ONLY INCREASE FAITH AND BELIEF OF THE MUJAHEDIN (THE HOLY WARRIORS) IN GOD'S TRUE PROMISE, NAMELY THAT VICTORY WILL BE ACHIEVED AND THIS SOLID RELIGION WILL TRIUMPH. QURANIC VERSE: GOD HAS PROMI SED THOSE AMONG YOU WHO BELIEVE .AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS THAT HE WILL GRANT THEM IN THE LAND INHERITANCE OF POWER AS HE GRANTED IT TO THOSE BEFORE THEM, AND THAT HE WILL ESTABLISH IN AUTHORITY THEIR RELIGION - THE ONE WHICH HE HAS CHOSEN FOR THEM.

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AS FOR YOU, DESPOTIC AGENTS, DO NOT BE FOOLED BY WHAT YOU HAVE ACHIEVED IN ONE OF THE ROUNDS OF THE CONFLICT. THE BATTALIONS OF THE MUJAHEDIN AND THEIR GROUPS ARE VANGUARDS ONLY FOR THESE GREAT MUSLIM EGYPTIAN PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN PATIENT WITH YOU FOR A LONG TIME. SO IF THE TIME OF SALVATION COMES, NEITHER THE U.S. NOR ISRAEL WILL BE OF ANY HELP TO YOU, AND THE MILITARY COURTS AND PHONY DEMOCRACY WILL NOT DEFEND YOU FROM THE UPCOMING AND INEVITABLE ROARING ANGER OF THE PEOPLE.

QURANIC VERSE: GOD HAS FULL POWER AND CONTROL OVER HIS AFFAIRS, BUT MOST AMONG MANKIND KNOW IT NOT.

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SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE JIHAD MOVEMENT-VANGUARDS OF THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST ABDALLAH AL-MANSOUR.

THE JIHAD MOVEMENT-VANGUARDS OF THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST E-MAIL: [email protected]

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REF: A) 98 CAIRO 8145, B) 98 CAIRO 11902, C) CAIRO 2876, D) CAIRO 3146, E) CAIRO 4648

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1. THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF TERRORIST-RELATED VIOLENCE IN EGYPT DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 1999,

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WRITERS, THINKERS AND MEN OF RELIGION TO DECLARE THEIR SUPPORT OF THE INITIATIVE, TO DEAL WITH IT IN A POSITIVE MANNER, AND NOT TO PAY HEED TO THOSE WHO WANT TO SABOTAGE IT. THE STATEMENT CONCLUDED BY STRESSING THAT PUTTING AN END TO THE MUTUAL VIOLENCE IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF ISLAM AND MUSLIMS.

7. THE "REDEEMED FROM HELL II CASE: ON APRIL 2 9, A STATE SECURITY EMERGENCY COURT SENTENCED MAGDY EL-SAFTY AND ABDALLAH ABOU EL 'ELA - TWO LEADERS OF THE "REDEEMED FROM HELL GROUP" - TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AT HARD LABOR FOR HAVING DONE THE FOLLOWING IN 1987: ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE TWO FORMER INTERIOR MINISTERS (HASSAN ABU BASHA AND EL-NABAWY ISMAIL) AND THE HEAD OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE MAKRAM MOHAMMAD AHMAD; FORMED AND DIRECTED AN ARMED CLANDESTINE GROUP WITH THE AIM OF OVERTHROWING THE REGIME; AND POSSESSED ARMS, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES. A STATE SECURITY EMERGENCY COURT HAD IN 1989 TRIED THE TWO IN ABSENTIA AND SENTENCED THEM TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AT HARD LABOR. ON THEIR ARREST IN 1994, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH EGYPTIAN LAW, THE TWO HAD TO STAND TRIAL. AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EXAMINING THE CASE, THE STATE SECURITY EMERGENCY COURT PASSED THE ABOVE RULING. OBSERVERS NOTE THAT THE DEFENDANTS WERZ NOT SURPRISED BY THE RULING, SAYING "THEY EXPECTED IT."

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9. THE "UPPER EGYPT" CASE (CASE NUMBER 129/1999): THE SUPREME STATE SECURITY EMERGENCY COURT STARTED JULY 12 ITS EXAMINATION OF A CASE INVOLVING 14 IG MEMBERS, 3 OF WHOM ARE MINORS. THE DEFENDANTS ARE ACCUSED OF HAVING CARRIED OUT IN AL-MINYA, BENI SUEF AND GIZA - DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1994 TO 1996 -A NUMBER OF TERRORIST CRIMES INCLUDING THE ASSASSINATION OF POLICE OFFICERS AND CHRISTIANS, STORMING AND ROBBING BANKS AND JEWELRY STORES, STEALING ARMS AND AMMUNITION, AND FORGING OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. ACCORDING TO A JOURNALIST SOURCE, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF IG MEMBERS IN CELLS INVOLVED IN THESE OPERATIONS WAS 33. HOWEVER, IN SHOOT OUTS WITH THE POLICE IN 1995 AND 1996, 19 OF THE IG OPERATIVES WERE KILLED. THE COURT HAS ADJOURNED TO RECONVENE IN SEPTEMBER.

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10. A NUMBER OF ARRESTS OF TERRORIST SUSPECTS TOOK PLACE IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1999. ON MARCH 22, AT LEAST 60 (SOME PAPERS REPORTED 96) SUSPECTED IG MEMBERS

WERE ARRESTED IN AL-MINYA, ASSlYUT I CAIRO, AND UNSPECIFIED DELTA GOVERNORATES. ACCORDING TO THE PRESS, THE SUSPECTS WERE ARRESTED FOR COOPERATING WITH FOREIGN AGENCIES TO DESTABILIZE EGYPT AND ASSASSINATE A NUMBER OF TOP OFFICIALS. ON MAY 26, 22 EXTREMrSTS WERE ARRESTED IN SHARQIYA GOVERNORATE IN THE DELTA ALLEGEDLY FOR PLANNING TO REVIVE THE GROUP KNOWS AS "THE

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VANGUlUmS OF ISLAMIC CONQUEST." ON JUNE 3, 26 SUSPECTS WERE ARRESTED IN THE TOWN OF KAFR EL-ZAYYAT IN THE DELTA GOVERNORATE OF GHARBIYA FOR REPORTEDLY PLANNING UNCLASSIFIED TO REVIVE THE ACTIVITIES OF SMALL ISLAMIST EXTREMIST GROUP KNOWN AS "AL-QUTBIYYOUN." FINALLY ON JUNE 16, 34 SUSPECTS WERE ARRESTED IN AL-MINYA AND ASSIYUT FOR THEIR ALLEGED MEMBERSHIP IN THE II ISLAMIC GROUP."

11. ON APRIL 26, THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR ISSUED A PRESS STATEMENT ANNOUNCING THAT THUS FAR IN 1999 THE GOVERNMENT HAD RELEASED 1,200 POLITICAL DETAINEES DESCRIBED AS "REPENTANT MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT" (REF D). THIS TRANCHE IS PART OF AN ONGOING INITIATIVE BY INTERIOR MINISTER ADLY TO REDUCE THE

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NUMBER OF DETAINEES IN PRISON.

EXECUTIONS OF TERRORISTS

12. NO TERRORISTS WERE EXECUTED DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1999. FROM 1992 TO DATE, 68 CONVICTED TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN EXECUTED IN EGYPT, ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS. KURTZER

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THE FOLLOWING RESPONSES FOR EGYPT ARE KEYED TO THE QUESTIONS IN REFTEL.

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MEMBERS OF THE II ISLAMIC GROUP" WERE KILLED IN THIS RAID. THE LEADERSHIP OF THE "ISLAMIC GROUP" RESIDING OUTSIDE OF EGYPT ANNOUNCED IN MARCH THAT IT WOULD ADHERE TO A CEASE-FIRE.

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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED BY LEADERS OF THE GROUP IMPRISONED IN EGYPT. THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER AGREED TO ANY UNCLASSIFIED CEASE-FIRE IN ITS ANTI-TERRORISM EFFORTS.

THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUED TO PROSECUTE TERRORIST CASES IN BOTH THE MILITARY COURTS AND THE STATE SECURITY EMERGENCY COURTS IN 1999. THE LARGEST AND MOST SIGNIFICANT CASE IN 1999 INVOLVED A MILITARY COURT TRIAL OF 107 DEFENDANTS, NEARLY ALL SUSPECTED OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE "JIHAD GROUP" AND POPULARLY KNOWN AS THE 'RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA'. ON APRIL 18, THE MILITARY COURT IN THIS CASE SENTENCED NINE DEFENDANTS TO DEATH (ALL OF THE DEFENDANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH WERE TRIED IN ABSENTIA), ACQUITTED 20 AND SENTENCED 78 OTHERS TO TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT RANGING FROM LIFE TO ONE YEAR.

B) EGYPT HAS NOT TO OUR KNOWLEDGE EXTRADITED ANY SUSPECTED TERRORISTS IN 1999. IT HAS REQUESTED THE EXTRADITION OF UNCLASSIFIED

PAGE 03 CAIRO 09562 070757Z TERRORISM SUSPECTS FROM SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES, INCLUDING URUGUAY AND THE U.K. IN ADDITION, SEVERAL COUNTRIES HAVE INFORMALLY RENDERED SUSPECTED TERRORISTS TO EGYPT, WHERE THEY STOOD TRIAL IN MILITARY COURTS ON TERRORISM-RELATED CHARGES.

C) THERE ARE NO SIGNIFICANT IMPEDIMENTS TO GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS.

D) IN ADDITION TO SEEKING THE EXTRADITION AND PROSECUTION OF TERRORISM SUSPECTS RESIDING OUTSIDE OF EGYPT IN 1999, THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT HAS CONTINUED TO SUPPORT NEW INTERNATIONAL COUNTER-TERRORISM CONVENTIONS AND AGREEMENTS. IN 1999, EGYPT SIGNED THE ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY'S CONVENTION ON FIGHTING TERRORISM. AT THE UN, EGYPT JOINED WITH THE U.S. IN SUPPORTING A DRAFT CONVENTION ON PREVENTING FINANCING OF TERRORISM.

E) INTERNATIONAL COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION REMAINS A KEY FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY FOR THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT. IT IS PART OF OUR BILATERAL U.S.-EGYPT STRATEGIC DIALOGUE.

F) EGYPT DOES NOT SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN ANY FORM.

G) THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT HAS NOT MADE ANY PUBLIC STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF A TERRORIST-SUPPORTING COUNTRY ON A TERRORISM ISSUE .

H) THERE HAS BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS TERRORISM IN 1999.

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J) - K) EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ARE COMMITTED TO PROTECTING U.S. CITIZENS AND FACILITIES FROM TERRORIST ATTACKS. THIS CRITICAL SECURITY COMMITMENT HAS REMAINED AT A HIGH LEVEL SINCE THE AUGUST 1998 BOMBING OF U.S. EMBASSIES IN EAST AFRICA. THE EGYPTIAN SPECIAL PROTECTION POLICE PROVIDE PROTECTIVE COVERAGE TO THE CHIEF OF MISSION AND HIGH-RANKING OFFICIAL VISITORS. COOPERATION BETWEEN EGYPTIAN SECURITY AND POST OFFICIALS IS GOOD. DESPITE THIS COMMITMENT TO PROTECT AMERICAN CITIZEN5 AND FACILITIES, THE LEVEL OF TRAINING OF EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES IS BELOW THE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL REQUIRED TO ENSURE FULL PROTECTION OF AMERICANS THROUGHOUT EGYPT. HARNISH

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SUMMARY

1. FOUR MEMBERS OF THE "ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT II (IG) TERRORIST GROUP WERE KILLED IN A RAID BY SECURITY FORCES IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1999. THESE WERE THE ONLY DEATHS IN TERRORIST-RELATED VIOLENCE IN 1999, THE LOWEST SUCH NUMBERS SINCE 1992. ALSO IN 1999, MILI'iA'RY

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, COURTS ISSUED VERDICTS IN TWO TRIALS, ONE INVOLVING MAINLY JIHAD TERRRORISTS AND THE OTHER IG TERRORISTS, AND STATE SECURITY EMERGENCY COURTS ISSUED VERD:LCTS IN UNCLASSIFIED TWO CASES AND BEGAN HEARINGS IN TWO OTHERS INVOLVING TERRORIST-RELATED CRIMES. NO TERRORISTS WERE EXECUTED IN 1999.

DEATH TOLL

2. IN CALENDAR YEAR 1999, THE LOCAL PRESS REPORTED FOUR DEATHS IN TERRORIST-RELATED VIOLENCE. ALL FOUR DEATHS OCCURRED IN ONE INCIDENT ON SEPTEMBER 7 WHEN SECURITY FORCES RAIDED A TERRORIST HIDEOUT ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CAIRO, IN THE GIZA NEIGHBORHOOD OF OMRANIYYA. IN THIS INCIDENT, SECURITY FORCES SHOT AND UNCLASSIFIED

PAGE 03 CAIRO 00332 01 OF 03 191403Z KILLED FOUR EXTREMISTS, INCLUDING A LEADER OF THE "ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT" FARID SALEM KIDWANI. (SEE REF D FOR MORE DETAILS OF THIS INCIDENT.)

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF MUBARAK

3. ON SEPTEMBER 6, AN ASSAILANT IN THE CITY OF PORT SA'ID JUMPED OUT OF A CROWD WATCHING PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S MOTORCADE AND ATTACKED PRESIDENT MUBARAK, WHO WAS PASSING IN A CAR, WITH A KNIFE. HE MANAGED ONLY TO SLIGHTLY SLASH MUBARAK'S HAND BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL BODYGUARDS SHOT AND KILLED HIM. THE INTERIOR MINISTRY ISSUED A STATEMENT AFTERWARDS ASSERTING THAT THE ASSAILANT HAD NO POLITICAL OR EXTREMIST AFFILIATIONS. PRESS REPORTS ALLEGED THAT THE ASSAILANT, AL-SAYED HUSSEIN MAHMOUD SULEIMAN, THOUGH NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY GROUP, WAS KNOWN TO BE A MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALIST WITH EXTREMIST VIEWS. (SEE REF C FOR MORE DETAILS OF THIS INCIDENT. )

1992-1999 STATISTICS

4. THE 1999 DEATH TOLL (4) IS THE LOWEST SINCE POST BEGAN MONITORING THESE STATISTICS IN 1992. FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF 1992-1999 FATALITIES, COLLECTED FROM LOCAL PRESS REPORTS:

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PAGE 04 CAIRO 00332 01 OF 03 191403Z -- 1992: 10 POLICEMEN; 29 EXTREMISTS; 41 CIVILIANS (INCLUDING 25 COPTS); AND 1 TOURIST; TOTAL OF 81.

-- 1993: 83 POLICEMEN; 64 EXTREMISTS; 52 CIVILIANS (INCLUDING 13 COPTS); AND 2 TOURISTS; TOTAL OF 201.

-- 1994: 101 POLICEMEN; 139 EXTREMISTS; 41 CIVILIANS (INCLUDING 9 COPTS); AND 5 TOURISTS; TOTAL OF 286.

-- 1995: 100 POLICEMEN; 185 EXTREMISTS; AND 84 CIVILIANS (INCLUDING 25 COPTS); TOTAL OF 369.

-- 1996: 48 POLICEMEN; 34 EXTREMISTS; 66 CIVILIANS (INCLUDING 22 COPTS); AND 18 TOURISTS: TOTAL OF 166.

-- 1997: 41 POLICEMEN; 41 EXTREMISTS: 47 CIVILIANS (INCLUDING 23 COPTS); AND 67 TOURISTS; TOTAL OF 196.

-- 1998: 11 POLICEMEN; 18 EXTREMISTS; AND 18 CIVILIANS (INCLUDING 8 COPTS); TOTAL OF 47.

1999: 4 EXTREMISTS; TOTAL OF 4.

1992-1999: 394 POLICEMEN; 514 EXTREMISTS; 349 CIVILIANS (INCLUDING 125 COPTS); AND 93 TOURISTS. THE TOTAL IS 1,350.

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ARRESTS AND RELEASES OF TERRORISM SUSPECTS

5. IN THE SIX-MONTH PERIOD, JULY-DECEMBER 1999, SECURITY FORCES CONTINUED TO ARREST SUSPECTED EXTREMISTS. IN JULY, A MEMBER OF THE "VANGUARDS OF ISLAMIC CONQUESTII GROUP, HASAN AL-BETOUGUI, WAS ARRESTED FOR SUSPECTED CONTACTS WITH LEADERS OF THIS GROUP IN PAKISTAN AND SYRIA. IN OCTOBER, SIX MEMBERS OF AN EXTREMIST GROUP KNOWN AS IIAL-TAKFIR WA AL-HIJRAII WERE ARRESTED FOR HOLDING "ORGANIZATIONAL" MEETINGS AND PLANNING TO DISTRIBUTE ANTI-GOVERNMENT LEAFLETS. IN NOVEMBER, 21 MEMBERS OF THE IIISLAMIC GROuplI WERE ARRESTED IN THE CAIRO DISTRICTS OF IMBABA, AL-WARRAQ, AND BOULAQ AL-DAKROUR.

6. THE INTERIOR MINISTRY BEGAN IN 1998 RELEASING LARGE NUMBERS OF SUSPECTED EXTREMISTS WHO HAD BEEN DETAINED WITHOUT TRIAL. THE GOVERNMENT OFTEN LABELS THEM "REPENTENT EXTREMISTS. II IN DECEMBER 1999, PRESS REPORTS STATED THE MINISTRY WAS PREPARING A LIST OF ABOUT 1,200 IG DETAINEES TO BE RELEASED ON THE OCCASION OF THE END OF RAMADAN BAIRAM HOLIDAY. THESE RELEASES TAKE PLACE IN SMALL NUMBERS AND IN STAGES, AND EXACT NUMBERS OF RELEASED DETAINEES ARE NOT ANNOUNCED. ACCORDING TO OBSERVERS, THE NUMBER OF DETAINEES RELEASED SINCE INTERIOR MINISTER HABIB AL-ADLY TOOK OFFICE IN NOVEMBER 1997 IS ESTIMATED AT MORE THAN UNCLASSIFIED

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TERRORIST TRIALS

7. THE "RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA" CASE (CASE NUMBER 8/1998): ON APRIL 18, A MILITARY COURT IN CAIRO ISSUED RULINGS AGAINST 107 DEFENDANTS, NEARLY ALL OF WHOM WERE CHARGED WITH BEING MEMBERS OF "THE JIHAD GROUP IN EGYPT" AND COMMITTING OR PLANNING ACTS OF TERRORISM. ONLY 47 DEFENDANTS WERE PRESENT FOR THE TRIAL, THE REMAINING 60 WERE TRIED IN ABSENTIA. NINE DEFENDANTS ­ ALL AT LARGE - WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH. ELEVEN OTHERS WERE SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AT HARD LABOR, 67 TO PRISON SENTENCES RANGING BETWEEN 1 - 15 YEARS AND 20 DEFENDANTS WERE ACQUITTED. (SEE REF A FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE CASE.)

8. THE MONTAZA PALACE CASE (CASE NUMBER 3/1999): ON JUNE 17, A MILITARY COURT IN CAIRO HANDED DOWN VERDICTS IN A CASE INVOLVING 21 IG MEMBERS, ACCUSED OF PLANNING TO STORM THE MONTAZA PALACE IN ALEXANDRIA AND ASSASSINATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS THERE, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT. THE VERDICTS DID NOT INCLUDE ANY DEATH PENALTIES. SENTENCES RANGED FROM IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE TO PERIODS BETWEEN FIVE AND 25 YEARS. ONE DEFENDANT WAS ACQUITTED. (SEE REF B).

9. THE "VIDEO BURNINGS" CASE: ON MARCH 8, THE SUPREME STATE SECURITY COURT ISSUED ITS VERDICT - WHICH UNCLASSIFIED

PAGE 04 CAIRO 00332 02 OF 03 191403Z COMMENTATORS DESCRIBED AS MODERATE - IN THE CASE INVOLVING 24 IG DEFENDANTS, ACCUSED OF HAVING SET FIRE TO A NUMBER OF VIDEO STORES IN THE CAIRO DISTRICTS OF AIN SHAMS AND EL-ZAWYYA EL-HAMRA, AS WELL AS ATTEMPTING TO ASSASSINATE A NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS IN 1994. THE COURT ACQUITTED ONE DEFENDANT; SENTENCED FOUR TO FIFTEEN YEARS AT HARD LABOR; SENTENCED FIVE TO TEN YEARS AT HARD LABOR; SENTENCED FIVE TO FIVE YEARS IMPRISONMENT; AND ONE TO THREE YEARS IMPRISONMENT. THE DEFENDANTS HAD ALREADY SPENT FOUR YEARS IN PRISON FROM THE TIME OF THEIR ARREST. THIS TIME WILL BE DEDUCTED FROM THEIR SENTENCES.

10. THE "REDEEMED FROM HELL" CASE: ON APRIL 29, A STATE

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11. THE "UPPER EGYPT" CASE (CASE NUMBER 129/1999): THE SUPREME STATE SECURITY EMERGENCY COURT STARTED HEARINGS ON JULY 12 IN A CASE INVOLVING 14 IG MEMBERS, THREE OF WHOM ARE MINORS. THE DEFENDANTS ARE ACCUSED OF HAVING CARRIED OUT IN AL-MINYA, BENI SUEF AND GIZA GOVERNORATES - DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1994 TO 1996 -A NUMBER OF TERRORIST CRIMES, INCLUDING THE ASSASSINATION OF POLICE OFFICERS AND CHRISTIANS, STORMING AND ROBBING BANKS AND JEWELRY STORES, STEALING ARMS AND AMMUNITION, AND FORGING OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. ACCORDING TO A JOURNALIST SOURCE, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF IG MEMBERS IN CELLS INVOLVED IN THESE OPERATIONS WAS 33. HOWEVER, IN SHOOTOUTS WITH THE POLICE IN 1995 AND 1996, 19 OF THE 1G OPERATIVES WERE KILLED, LEAVING THE REMAINING 14 DEFENDANTS. AFTER SEVERAL HEARINGS THROUGHOUT NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, THE COURT ADJOURNED TO RESUME HEARINGS FEBRUARY 8, 2000.

12. THE DAIROUT TERRORIST GROUP: ON OCTOBER 19, THE ASSIYUT STATE SECURITY EMERGENCY COURT STARTED EXAMINING THE CASE INVOLVING FOUR DEFENDANTS FROM THE TOWN OF DAIROUT IN ASSIYUT GOVERNORATE. THE DEFENDANTS ARE ACCUSED OF BELONGING TO A CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION WHICH AIMS TO TOPPLE THE REGIME, OF POSSESSING ARMS AND AMMUNITION, OF BURGLARY, .AND OF HAVING ASSAULTED, UNCLASSIFIED

PAGE 03 CAIRO 00332 03 OF 03 191404Z PLOTTED TO MURDER, AND ASSASSINATED A NUMBER OF COPTS AND POLICEMEN IN THE EARLY 1990S (NOTE: NO EXACT DATES WERE PROVIDED). THE CASE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 28, 2000.

EXECUTIONS OF TERRORISTS

13. NO TERRORISTS WERE EXECUTED DURING THE YEAR 1999. FROM 1992 TO DATE, 68 CONVICTED TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN EXECUTED IN EGYPT, ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS. HAMISH

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1 . POST HAS OBTAINED FAXED COPIES OF TWO STATEMENTS IN ARABIC ISSUED BY THE "ISLAMIC MEDIA OBSERVATION CENTER" IN LONDON, AND HAS TRANSLATED THEM BELOW. THIS CENTER IS AFFILIATED WITH THE EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD (EIJ). THE STATEMENTS CONDEMN ON HUMAN RIGHTS GROUNDS THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT'S EXECUTION OF TWO CONVICTED JIHAD TERRORISTS ON FEBUARY 24 (REFTEL). THE STATEMENTS ALSO NOTE THAT "THE CIA, NATO FORCES AND ALBANIAN INTELLIGENCE" DETAINED THE TWO AND RENDERED THEM TO EGYPT. THE STATEMENTS CONCLUDE THAT SUCH EXECUTIONS "COULD LEAD TO FURTHER CONFRONTATION" BETWEEN ISLAMIC

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MILITANTS AND THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT.

2. IN A RELATED DEVELOPMENT, AN EIJ LEADER IN LONDOH, UNCLASSIFIED HANI AL-SIBA'I, GAVE AN INTERVIEW TO AL-HAYAT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MARCH 5. SIBA' I CRITICIZED THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN EIJ CEASEFlRE BY OSAMA AYOUB WHO, HE SAID, IS NOT AN EIJ MEMBER. THE CEASEFIRE IS "A GIFT FROM SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T OWN IT TO SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T DESERVE IT." ISLAMIC LAW ALLOWS SOMEONE WHO IS TEMPORARILY INCAPICITATED TO DESIST FROM JIHAD, SIBA'I SAID, AND HE SAID THE EIJ CURRENTLY LACKS CAPACITY INSIDE EGYPT. BUT HE CRITICIZED THE "ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT" FOR ANNOUNCING A CEASEFIRE AND FOR ITS GENERAL FOCUS ON SPREADING THE FAITH AND PUBLIC MORALS. THE IG USED TO TARGET LIQUOR, VIDEO AND HOTEL ESTABLISHMENTS. MEANWHILE, THE EIJ HAS FOCUSED ON THE MORE SERIOUS WORK OF ESTABLISHING AN ISLAMIC STATE, WHICH REQUIRES UNCLASSIFIED

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3. BEGIN TEXT OF FIRST STATEMENT:

IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

AN URGENT REPORT AND A CALL ON ALL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND AGENCIES

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST TWO MUSLIM YOUTHS BASED UPON VERDICTS ISSUED BY MILITARY COURTS

ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2000, THE EGYPTIAN REGIME IMPLEMENTED ARBITRARY DEATH SENTENCES THAT HAD BEEN ISSUED AGAINST TWO MUSLIM YOUTHS. THE TWO COMRADES ARE: AHMED IBRAHIM EL-SAYYED AL-NAGGAR, 38, AND AHMED ISMAIL OSMAN SALEH, 32. EACH ONE OF THEM WAS BURIED IN HS HOMETOWN LATE YESTERDAY, WEDNESDAY, IN THE PRESENCE OF ONE PERSON FROM EACH ONE'S FAMILY AMIDST STRINGENT SECURITY.

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PAGE 04 CAIRO 01504 01 OF 03 071133Z UNCLASSIFIED AND UNJUST MILITARY COURTS. THESE COURTS IGNORED THE FACT THAT THE CONFESSIONS ATTRIBUTED TO THE TWO (COMRADES) WERE OBTAINED UNDER DURESS AND THROUGH TORTURE, IN ADDITION TO THE FACT THAT THE VERDICTS WERE CHARACTERIZED BY FLAGRANT INJUSTICE. MILITARY COURTS HAVE BEEN CONTESTED AND CONDEMNED BY ALL INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS SINCE THEIR VERDICTS CANNOT BE APPEALED. THESE PROCEDURES ARE CONSIDERED SHORT OF FULFILLING THE INTERNATIONAL CRITERIA FOR A FAIR TRIAL.

THE ISLAMIC MEDIA OBSERVATION CENTER SENDS CONDOLENCES TO ALL MUSLIMS ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO COMRADES AND ASKS GOD'S MERCY AND FORGIVENESS FOR THEM AND FOR US AND ASKS GOD TO GIVE THEIR FAMILY AND US PATIENCE AND SOLACE. WE HEREBY MENTION THAT THEIR BLOOD WILL BE A CURSE ON THEIR MURDERERS. LET THE EGYPTIAN REGIME KNOW THAT THE BLOOD WILL BE A CURSE ON IT AND A PREMONITION TO THIS OPPRESSIVE DICTATORIAL REGIME.

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SINGLE SHOT IN THE CASE. HE (NAGGAR) HAD DONE A THREB- YEAR PRISON TERM IN 1981 IN THE "JIHAD CASE" (SADAT'S ASSASSINATION) AND WAS DETAINED SEVERAL TIMES UNTIL HE LEFT EGYPT IN 1992. HE WORKED AT THE "HARAMEIN" CHARITABLE INSTITUTION IN ALBANIA UNTIL HE WAS DETAINED AND EXTRADITED TO EGYPT ON JULy 2, 1998. HE WAS TORTURED AT THE STATE SECURITY HEADQUARTERS UNTIL HE

WAS BROUGHT TO TRIAL AGAIN IN THE II RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA" CASE IN WHICH HE WAS DEFENDANT NO. 28. A LIFE SENTENCE AT HARD LABOR WAS ISSUED AGAINST HIM BY A MILITARY COURT IN THAT CASE. THE DEATH SENTENCE WAS CARRIED OUT YESTERDAY AND HIS BODY - MAY GOD BLESS HIM - WAS BURIED IN THE PRESENCE OF ONE OF HIS BROTHERS AT THE FAMILY'S CEMETERY IN THE ABU RAWWASH AREA OF GIZA PROVINCE AMIDST STRINGENT SECURITY AND IN THE PRESENCE OF A NUMBER OF STATE SECURITY OFFICES, INCLUDING OFFICER ADAM ISMAIL AND MOHAMED ABDALLAH, AND AHMED ALAA WHO WAS A WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION IN THE CASE.

THE SECOND COMRADE, AHMED ISMAIL OSMAN SALEH, 32, WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 20, 1968. HE WAS MARRIED AND HAD A CHILD. HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA ON MARCH 17, 1994 AND WAS THE SEVENTH DEFENDANT IN MILITARY COURT CASE NO. 1 OF 1994 KNOWN AS "THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FORMER PM ATEF SEDKY." HE WORKED AT THE "REVIVAL OF TRADITION" SOCIETY IN ALBANIA UNTIL HE WAS DETAINED AND EXTRADITED TO THE EGYPTIAN REGIME ON AUGUST 18, 1998. HE WAS TORTURED UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN EGYPT AT THE STATE SECURITY HEADQUARTERS AND WAS NOT INTERROGATED UNTIL NOVEMBER 3, 1998 TO GIVE TIME TO THE UNCLASSIFIED

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THE TWO COMRADES WERE EXTRADITED TO EGYPT AS PART OF THE FEROCIOUS CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED BY THE ENEMIES OF rs~ AND Mt1SLIMS AGAINST ISLAMIC ACTIVISTS. THEY WERE DETAINED WITH OTHERS IN ALBANIA IN COORDINATION WITH NATO FORCES, CIA, AND ALBANIAN INTELLIGENCE.

THE ISLAMIC MEDIA OBSERVATION CENTER'S INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS HAS LEARNED THAT THERE WERE GUARANTEES NOT TO IMPLEMENT THE DEATH SENTENCES AGAINST THE TWO IN RETURN FOR THEIR EXTRADITION AND FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLY THE VERDICTS THAT WOULD BE ISSUED AGAINST THEM. BUT IT SEEMS THAT THE EGYPTIAN REGIME BREACHED THE PROMISES AND GUARANTEES - SINCE IT HAS NO CONSCIENCE - AND THIS HIDEOUS CRIME PROVES THAT THE REGIME EXECUTED COMRADE TALAAT FOUAD QASSEM WHO HAD BEEN HANDED OVER BY CIA AFTER BEING KIDNAPPED FROM CROATIA. IT WAS (ALSO) CIRCULATED AT THE TIME THAT HE WAS EXTRADITED IN RETURN FOR PROMISES NOT TO CARRY OUT THE DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST HIM!!

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PAGE 04 CAIRO 01504 02 OF 03 071134Z THE EGYPTIAN REGIME'S HIDEOUS CRIME. SUCH PRACTICES COULD LEAD TO FURTHER ESCALATION AND CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE COMRADES OF THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT AND THE EGYPTIAN REGIME. THE COMMISSION HEREBY URGES ALL CONCERNED AGENCIES TO INTERVENE TO HALT SUCH BLATANT PRACTICES AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. THE COMMISSION ALSO CALLS ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO USE MEANS OF PRESSURE AND PASS RESOLUTIONS AGAINST THE EGYPTIAN REGIME TO FORCE IT TO RESPECT INTERNATIONAL LAWS AND CHARTERS.

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rHE DUTY OF PERFORMING MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO WERE EXECUTED IN EGYPT

THE MOGHNI BOOK BY IBN QUDAMAH VOLUME III PAGE 446 SAYS THAT A MEMORIAL SERVICE CAN BE PERFORMED BY INTENTION FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY.

THE ISLAMIC MEDIA OBSERVATION CENTER CALLS ON ALL MUSLIMS IN LONDON TO PERFORM THIS ISLAMIC DUTY AT THE ISLAMIC CENTER IN LONDON ("REGENT PARK MOSQUE") AFTER THE FRIDAY NOON PRAYER TODAY ON THE SOULS OF TWO MUSLIMS WHO WERE EXECUTED BY THE EGYPTIAN REGIME.

ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23~ 2000, THE EGYPTIAN REGIME CARRIED OUT THE DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST TWO MUSLIM YOUTHS AT THE CAIRO PRISON OF APPEAL. THE TWO WERE AHMED IBRAHIM EL-SAYYED AL-NAGGAR, 38, AND AHMED ISMAIL OSMAN SALEH, 32. EACH ONE OF THEM WERE BURIED IN HIS HOMETOWN LATE THURSDAY NIGHT IN THE PRESENCE OF ONE PERSON FROM EACH ONE'S FAMILY AMIDST STRINGENT SECURITY. IT IS WORTH MENTIONING THAT THE FIRST, AHMED IBRAHIM EL-SAYYED AL-NAGGAR, 38, WAS MARRIED AND HAD FIVE CHILDREN, WHILE THE SECOND, AHMED ISMAIL OSMAN SALEH, 32, WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 20, 1968 AND WAS MARRIED AND HAD A CHILD.

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TOLD US THE CASE IS SIGNIFLCANT BECAUSE ~O=::F=--=T=H==E=--=P:=RE=S=E==N-=CE=' OF FIVE TO SIX DEFENDANTS WHO HAVE WORKED DIRECTLY WITH EIJ LEADER AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI ABROAD AND WHOSE PRE-TRIAL CONFESSIONS INCLuqE DETAILS OF ZAWAHIRI' S MOVEMENTS AND TACTICS. I ---3 SURMISES THAT UNCOVERING THESE DETAILS MAY FORCE ZAWAHIRI TO CHANGE THE WAY HE DOES BUSINESS. COMMENTING ON TRENDS IN THE ISLAMIST EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS MORE GENERALLY, IISAID SOME (READ PUBLICISTS FOR THE "ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT") THINK BIN LADEN/ZAWAHIRI MADE A TACTICAL MISTAKE IN TAKING ON THE U.S., POINTING TO THIS TRrAL AS A RESULT. END SUMMARY.

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3. (U) ON FEBRUARY 1, EGYPT'S HIGHER MILITARY COURT BEGAN TO HEAR EVIDENCE IN ONE OF THE LARGEST TRIALS EVER OF EGYPTIAN TERRORISTS. TERMED IN THE PRESS HERE THE "RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA" CASE, IT INVOLVES 107 DEFENDANTS NEARLY ALL OF WHOM .ME LEADERS AND CADRES OF THE "JIHAD GROUP IN EGYPTII (CALLED EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD OR EIJ). THE PRESS NOTES THAT FIVE OR SIX OF THE DEFENDANTS WERE BROUGHT BACK FROM ALBANIA, AND THE LEADER OF THIS GROUP IS EIJ MEMBER AHMAD AL-NAGGAR, WHO IS QUOTED SHOUTING THREATS AGAINST THE AMERICANS DURING THE TRIAL. 63 OF THE DEFENDANTS ARE BEING TRIED IN ABSENTIA INCLUDING EIJ LEADER AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI. EIJ

HAS JOINED I S II FRONT TO COMBAT JEWS AND CRUSADERS II .AND THE EIJ IS CLOSELY LINKED WITH BIN LADEN'S "AL-QAIDA" ORGANIZATION.

4. (C) WHILE THE CASE IS FOCUSED ON THE EIJ, THE GOVERNMENT HAS INCLUDED IN IT AT LEAST SIX MEMBERS OF THE II ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT" (IG) INCLUDING ONE PROMINENT LEADER BEING TRIED IN ABSENTIA, MUHJ\MMAD SHAWQI ISLAMBOULI. HE IS THE BROTHER OF SADAT ASSASSIN KHALED ISLAMBOULI; SOME OBSERVERS HERE BELIEVE MUHAMMAD ISLAMBOULI IS CONNECTED WITH THE EIJ DEFENDANTS THROUGH SETTING UP TERRORIST TRAINING CAMPS IN THE BALKANS. ACCORDING TO I Bl I ITHE OTHER FIVE IG DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN IN DETENTION IN EGYPT FOR SEVERAL YEARS WITHOUT TRIAL. ~AID ONE IS ABDEL MUNEIM GAMAL EDDIN, WHO HAS BEEtrnr-DETENTION

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5. eCl THE TRIAL IS SIGNIFICANT, ACCORDING TO I I BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE Bl OF FIVE TO SIX EIJ DEFENDANTS WHO HAVE WORKED DIRECTLY WITH ZAWAHIRI AND OTHER EIJ LEADERS AND WHO, IN PRE­ TRIAL CONFESSIONS, HAVE DETAILED ZAWAHIRI' S MOVEMENTS AND OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES. IISAID THESE KEY DEFENDANTS WERE BROUGHT TO EGYPT FROM ALBANIA LAST SUMMER 1 -,..--;;;;;;.,;-_ I THE TRIAL INCLUDES EIJ MEMBERS ARRESTED IN EGYPT AND OTHER COUNTRIES, HE SAID. THIS IS NOT THE LARGEST CASE IN EGYPT'S HISTORY; BOTH THE 1981 SADAT ASSASSINATION CASE AND THE 1994 "" CASES HAD MORE DEFENDANTS.

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THE U.S. IN EARLY 1995 USING A FORGED PASSPORT, PRIMARILY TO COLLECT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ISLAMIST CIRCLES. ABU AD-DAHHAB PLACED ZAWAHIRI AT THE AL-NUR MOSQUE IN SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA. THREE AMERICAN CITIZENS OF EGYPTIAN EXTRACTION WHO, PER ABU AD-DARHAB, HELPED ZAWAHIRI' S 1995 VISIT WERE ALI ABU AL-SA'UD MUSTAFA AND TWO BROTHERS, ALI AND HASSAN ZAKI, ALL LIVING IN THE SAN FRANSCISCO AREA. MUSTAFA HAD SERVED IN THE U.S. ARMY FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

7. (U) AL-HAYAT OF FEBRUARY 11 ADDS THAT EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES MAY ASK THE U.S. TO RENDER MUSTAFA FOR TRIAL IN THE "RETURNEES" CASE, PRIMARILY FOR HIS EIJ FUNDRAISING. MUSTAFA APPARENTLY TOLD ABU AD-DAHHAB THAT THE MONEY THAT MUSTAFA HAD RAISED WAS USED TO PLAN THE 1995 BOMB ATTACK ON THE EGYPTIAN EMBASSY IN PAKISTAN. MUSTAFA IS ALSO WANTED FOR HELPING TO TRAIN EIJ OPERATIVES IN BOMB-MAKING TECHNIQUES, PER AL-HAYAT.

THREATS AGAINST THE U.S. EMERGING FROM THE TRIAL

8. (C) ASKED ABOUT THE RECENT EIJ THREAT AGAINST AMERICANS PUBLISHED IN THE LONDON-BASED DAILY AL-QUDS AL-ARABI,\ ISAID EIJ RETALIATION IS QUITE POSSIBLE, BI GIVEN THE EIJ'S AND BIN LADEN'S FOCUS ON AMERICANS AND

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9. (C) SUMMING UP,~STRESSED THAT ZAWAHIRI WILL Bl UNDERSTAND FROM THE ~HAT HIS METHODS AND TAC'rrCS ARE BEING UNCOVERED AND THIS WILL FORCE HIM TO MAKE CHANGES. COMMENTING ON TRENDS IN THE ISLAMIST EXTREMIST MOVEMENT MORE GENERALLY, IISAID SOME LEADERS ARE CONCLUDING THAT THE BIN LADEN/EIJ DECISION TO CONFRONT THE U. S. WAS A MISTAKE. IT HAS LED, INTER ALIA, TO THESE RECENT RENDITIONS FROM ALBANIA AND KUWAIT, CAUSING NEW PROBLEMS FOR THE EXTREMISTS. BIN LADEN HAD BET THAT HITTING THE U.S. WOULD WEAREN THE WEST AND LEAD MORE DIRECTLY TO THE LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM. HE HAD MISTAKENLY PUT LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM AS A SHORT-TERM GOAL. SENTIMENT IS GROWING, PERI I TO PUT OFF LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM AND FOCUS MORE ON REBUILDING ISLAMIST POLITICAL STRENGTH. THIS INCLUDES SHYING AWAY FROM ALL OF THE "POLITICAL TALK" ENGAGED IN BY BIN LADEN AND ZAWAHIRI, HE CONCLUDED. KURTZER

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JUDICIAL SYSTEM, EITHER THROUGH THE STA~gIFIED EMERGENCY COURTS (FAST TRIALS) OR THE MILITARY COURTS (VERY FAST TRIALS). JOURNALISTS EXPECT VERDICTS AS EARLY AS THE WEEK OF MARCH 14 IN THE "RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA" MILITARY COURT TRIAL, INVOL MEMBERS WHO WERE RETURNED FROM ABROAD. LOCAL PRESS REVEALED MARCH 10 THAT TWO DEFENDANTS WHO HAVE NOT YET APPEARED AT TRIAL, AND WERE THOUGHT TO BE "IN ABSENTIA", MAY IN FACT HAVE BEEN RETURNED RECENTLY TO EGYPTIAN CUSTODY. THEY ARE AHMAD SALAMA MABRUK (ACCORDING TO I I RENDERED FROM Bl AZERBAIJAN) AND MUHAMMAD SA I ID AL- I ASHRY (ACCORDING TO 1 I RENDERED FROM THE UAE). THIS CASE IS HAILED HERE FOR ITS REVELATIONS ABOUT AND ANTICIPATED BLOW TO THE JIHAD ORGANIZATION OUTSIDE OF EGYPT. ANOTHER TRIAL, THE "VIDEO CLUB" BURNING CASE INVOLVING 24· MEMBERS OF THE "ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT," ENDED THIS SECRET

PAGE 03 CAIRO 01905 01 OF 02 111752Z WEEK WITH 15 SENTENCED TO PRISON TERMS OF VARYING LENGTHS AND NINE ACQUITTALS. AN IG MEMBER READ OUT A STATEMENT BEFORE THE VERDICT CALLING ON THE MILITARY WING OF THE IG TO ADHERE TO THE CEASEFlRE. THIS CONTINUING CALL FOR A CEASEFlRE SEEMS TO REFLECT AN IG STRATEGY INSIDE EGYPT TO MOVE THE ORGANIZATION AWAY FROM VIOLENCE IN ORDER TO PROTECT ITS STRUCTURE FROM FURTHER GOE SECURITY PRESSURE. END SUMMARY.

THE JIHADIST "RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA" CASE

3. (C) THE CAIRO MILITARY COURT TRYING 107 SUSPECTED TERRORISTS, NEARLY ALL FROM THE "JIHAD GROUP IN EGYPT"" (EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD OR EIJ) , MAY ANNOUNCE VERDICTS AS EARLY AS THE WEEK OF MARCH 14, ACCORDING TO LOCAL JOURNALISTS 1'---- _ I Ir--"=T::':HE=--=TR=IAL;-:;:--,"""':p::;O:O::::-:;P;::;U:;:;LARL;-;-;~Y:-=KN=O:;::WN::::--=-AS-=-T=H=E "RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA, " BEGAN FEBRUARY 1 (REFTEL). I I SAYS THAT THE PROSECUTION HAS Bl RESTED, AND THE DEFENSE HAS ALMOST FINISHED ITS PRESENTATION. THUS IF THE VERDICTS ARE NOT ANNOUNCED NEXT WEEK, THEN THE COURT MAY WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE END OF MARCH "EID AL-ADHA" HOLIDAY. THE PROSECUTION IS SEEKING THE DEATH PENALTY FOR 35 DEFENDANTS IDENTIFIED IN THE USUAL MILITARY COURT FASHION BY NUMBER BUT NOT BY NAME. r IBELIEVES MOST OF THESE DEFENDANTS ARE BEING TRIED IN ABSENTIA; HE EXPECTS FROM PAST COURT PRECEDENT THAT ABOUT FIVE OF THOSE PRESENT AT THE TRIAL WILL RECEIVE THE DEATH PENALTY, WHILE MANY OTHERS WILL

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4. (S) LOCAL PRESS HAS REPORTED UNTIL NOW THAT ONLY 44 OF THE 107 DEFENDANTS ARE PRESENT FOR THE TRIAL WITH THE OTHER 63 BEING TRIED IN ABSENTIA. HOWEVER, AL- HAYAT REPORTED MARCH 10 THAT TWO OF THE "IN ABSENTIA" DEFENDANTS MAY IN FACT BE IN EGYPTIAN CUSTODY THOUGH THEY HAVE NOT YET APPEARED IN COURT. ONE IS AHMAD SALAMA MABRUK, DESCRIBED IN AL-HAYAT AS AN EIJ FOUNDER WHO SPENT SEVEN YEARS IN EGYPTIAN PRISON FOLLOWING THE 1981 SADAT ASSASSINATION THEN LEFT EGYPT; THE OTHER,

MUHAMMAD SA I ID AL- I ASHRY, ALSO LEFT EGYPT AT THE END OF THE 1980' S. ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS MARCH 10, MABRUK WAS RENDERED TO EGYPT FROM AN UNNAMED FORMER SOVIET

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5. (C) J JBELIEVES THAT AMONG THOSE WKO Bf WILL REElVE THE DEATH P NALTY .ARE THE EPONYMOUS . RETURNEES FROM THE EIJ CELL IN ALBANIA, AHMAD AL-NAGGAR AND SHAWQI SALAMA (THE LATTER WAS THE CELL LEADER PER I I· NAGGAR HAS :READ SOME STATEMENTS TO THE PRESS DURING THE TRt== THREATENING U.S. INTERESTS WITH RETALIATION - IDISMISSES THESE STATEMENTS AS "EMPTY WORDS" SINCE NAGGAR HAS BEEN IN GOE CUSTODY SINCE JUNE AND THUS IS OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE JIHAD LEADERSHIP ABROAD. KNOWING HE IS ABOUT TO HANG, HAGGAR HAS NOTHING TO LOSE, PERI I

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6. (U) SEPARATELY ON MARCH 8, THE SUP~.AJSSIFIED SECURITY COURT HANDED DOWN VERDICTS IN A CASE AGAINST 24 EGYPTIANS CHARGED WITH SETTING UP THREE CELLS OF THE "ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT", BURNING DOWN FOUR VIDEO RENTAL STORES AND ATTEMPTING TO KILL THREE POLICEMEN. LOCAL PRESS CHARACTERIZED THE VERDICTS AS LIGHT: 14 DEFENDANTS RECEIVED PRISON SENTENCES RANGING BETWEEN 5 TO 15 YEARS AT HARD LABOR; ONE MINOR WAS GIVEN THREE SECRET

PAGE 03 CAIRO 01905 02 OF 02 111748Z YEARS IMPRISONMENTi AND NINE WERE ACQUITTED. ALL DEFENDANTS WERE FROM THE POOR NEIGHBORHOODS IN NORTHERN CAIRO OF AL-ZAWIYYA AL-HAMRA AND WAILI. BEFORE THE JUDGE READ THE VERDICTS, ONE DEFENDANT - KHALED ASDEL

MU I TI - READ A STATEMENT DECLARING THAT ALL PRISONERS AND DETAINEES (LATTER ARE THOSE HELD WITHOUT CHARGES) IN THE TORA PRISON SUPPORTED THE IG'S CEASEFIRE INITIATIVE. THE STATEMENT CALLED ON THE MEMBERS OF THE IG'S MILITARY WING TO CONTINUE ADHERING TO THE CEASEFIRE.

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7. (C) SOME LOCAL COMMENTATORS POSIT A TACIT UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE GOE AND IG, BASED ON THE rG'S CONTINUING ITS CEASEFIRE IN EXCHANGE FOR THE GOE'S TAKING A MORE LENIENT APPROACH TO IG DEFENDANTS IN 'l'HE COURTS AND PRISONS. HOWEVER, INTERIOR MINISTER ADLY HAS PUBLICLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY DENIED ANY SUCH DEAL, AND WE SEE THE IG CEASEFIRE AS A DIRECT RESULT OF ITS CURRENT WEAKNESS INSIDE EGYPT. I \WHO Bl OFTEN ECHOES THE THINKING OF IG LEADERS INSIDE EGYPT', CHARACTERIZES THE CEASEFIRE AS AN ATTEMPT TO MOVE THE IG AWAY FROM VIOLENCE IN ORDER TO PRESERVE ITS FRACTURED STRUCTURE FROM FURTHER GOE SECURITY PRESSURE.

B. (C) REGARDING THE EIJ, THE "RETURNEES FROM ALBANIAII CASE IS BEING HAILED LOCALLY FOR ITS REVELATIONS ABOUT THE EIJ STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITIES ABROAD. AL-HAYAT HAS PUBLISHED DETAILS OF THE EIJ EXTERNAL LEADERSHIP SECRET

PAGE 04 CAIRO 01905 02 OF 02 111748Z STRUCT~., THE NINE-PERSON EIJ MAJLIS AL-SHURA IN REF B). ~ANTICIPATES THAT THIS CASE WILL DAMAGE Bl THE EIJ ABROAD JUST AS EARLIER COURT CASES HIT THE ErJ ORGANIZATION INSIDE EGYPT. HE REFERS TO THE 1998 "KHAN AL-KHALILI" CASE AGAINSQ87 EIQNTS (AN

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ATTEMPTED JIHAD REVIVAL IN THE CAIRO ~~mFIED BOMB A NUMBER OF TOURIST AREAS, IQLUDINGQRIST SOUK AND THE RUG-MAKING VILLAGE OF KIRDASA) AND THE 1995 "VANGUARDS OF CONQUEST" CASE AGAINST 42 MEMBERS OF THIS OFFSHOOT OF THE EIJ (WHICH SERIOUSLY DAMAGED THIS ORGANIZATION INSIDE EGYPT) . 9 . (C)I JWHO HAS ATTENDED THE Bl "RETURNEES" TRIAL THROUGH UT, REPORTS THAT THE DEFENDANT NAGGAR AND OTHER EIJ DEFENDANTS ARE ANGRY WITHl I FOR COMBING THROUGH INTERROGATION TRANSCRIPTS FOR JUICY REVELATIONS AND BASING NEWS STORIES ON THEM. THESE DEFENDANTS CLAIM ITHE "CONFESSIONS" WEElE COERCED AND ARE INACCURATE, PER I

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1. (U) ON FEBRUARY 24, THE GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT EXECUTED TWO MEMBERS OF THE "JIHAD GROUP IN EGYPT" WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA. AHMAD IBRAHIM SAYYID AL-NAGGAR WAS SENTENCED IN ABSENTIA IN THE "KHAN AL-KHALILI" MILITARY COURT CASE IN 1997. IN THIS CASE, THE JIHAD'S PLAN TO BLOW UP A POPULAR TOURIST SITE IN CAIRO WAS DISCOVERED BEFORE IT WAS IMPLEMENTED. AHMAD I SMA 'IL UTHMAN SALIJr WAS SENTENCED IN ABSENTIA IN THE 1994 MILITARY COURT CASE INVOLVING THE JIHAD'S ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THEN PRIME MINISTER ATEF SIDKI. IN THIS CASE, THE JIHAD CARRIED OUT THE ATTACK AND ACCIDENTALLY KILLED AN EGYPTIAN BYSTANDER, BUT MISSED SIDKI. SUBSEQUENTLY, BOTH NAGGAR AND SALIH WERE RENDERED TO EGYPT IN 1998 AND STOOD TRIAL IN THE 15199

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"RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA" MILITARY COURT~LMgI~D'ED PRISON TERMS, BUT NOT DEATH SENTENCES, IN THAT CASE (REF B) •

2. (C) ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS, A JIHAD-AFFILIATED GROUP IN LONDON, THE "ISLAMIC MEDIA OBSERVATORY," HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE LATEST EXECUTIONS (SEPTEL). IN ADDITION, ON FEBRUARY 26 JIHAD MEMBER HANY AL-SIBA'I (NOTE: SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA IN "THE RETURNEES FROM ALBANIA" CASE, REF B) IS QUOTED IN AL-HAYAT NEWSPAPER AS SAYING THAT THESE EXECUTIONS INDICATE A SPLIT IN POLICY IN THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT OVER HOW TO DEAL WITH ISLAMIST TERRORISTS. SIBA'I IS PROBABLY REFERRING TO THE LOCAL PRESS REPORT THAT EGYPT'S MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR IS PLANNING TO RELEASE ABOUT 1,000 PERSONS DETAINED WITHOUT TRIAL FOR ALLEGED ISLAMIST SYMPATHIES. (NOTE: IF TRUE, THIS WILL PUSH THE RELEASE OF DETAINEES IN THE PAST TWO YEARS TO MORE THAN 7,000. END NOTE.) THE RELEASE WILL BE TIMED PRIOR TO THE CONFIDENTIAL

PAGE 03 CAIRO 01336 291553Z EARLY MARCH ISLAMIC FEAST OF SACRIFICE, ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS. BUT THE RELEASE DOES NOT NECESSARILY INDICATE A POLICY DIFFERENCE WITHIN THE GOE. WHILE THE GOE EXECUTED TWO JIHAD MEMBERS AND PUSHED THROUGH A THREE-YEAR RENEWAL OF THE EMERGENCY LAW, IT ALSO IN THE SAME WEEK SIGNALED THAT IT WOULD SHOW LENIENCY FOR DETAINEES WHOM IT DETERMINED NO LONGER PRESENT A SECURITY THREAT.

3. (C) I Bl I I TOLD OS FEBRUARY 28 THAT, TO HIS KNOWLEDGE, THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THE GOVERNMENT HAS CARRIED OUT A DEATH SENTENCE ISSUED IN ABSENTIA. IISAID THAT THE NORMAL CRIMINAL COURTS WOULD NOT DO SO - THE DEFENDANT WOULD HAVE TO BE RETRIED ONCE THE GOVERNMENT HAD HIM. II OFFERED HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HOW A MILITARY COURT WOULD TREAT SUCH A CASE. IF THE GOVERNMENT OBTAINS CUSTODY OF A DEFENDANT ALREADY SENTENCED IN ABSENTIA, A MILITARY COURT WOULD ALLOW THE DEFENDANT TO PRESENT A MEMORANDUM IN HIS DEFENSE. THEN THE MILITARY JUDGES WOULD REVIEW THE TRIAL RECORD BEFORE DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT TO ORDER THE SENTENCE TO BE CARRIED OUT. IN OTHER WORDS, ACCORDING TO I I A DEFENDANT TRIED IN ABSENTIA IN A MILITARY COURT DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL, ONCE HE IS REMANDED INTO GOVERNMENT CUSTODY.

4. (C) COMMENT: THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT'S EXECUTION OF CONVICTED TERRORISTS IS NOT NEW. ACCORDING TO OUR RECORDS, 70 CONVICTED TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN EXECUTED SINCE THE ~VE OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM BEGAN IN 1992 (THE LATEST BEFORE NAGGAR AND SALIH WERE THE FARAHAT BROTHERS IN MAY 1998, CONVICTED OF

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PAGE 04 CAIRO 01336 291553Z THE TAHRIR SQUARE ATTACK). BUT BECAUSE THE NAGGAR AND SALIH EXECUTIONS WERE BASED ON SENTENCES ISSUED IN ABSENTIA, THEY RAISE NEW, TROUBLING CONCERNS ABOUT DUE PROCESS. IN ADDITION, THE EXECUTIONS MAY PROVE DANGEROUS FOR U. S• SECURITY INTERESTS. AS THE INTERNATIONAL ARABIC PRESS HAS POINTED OUT, THE U. S. GOVERNMENT RENDERED NAGGAR AND SALIH TO EGYPT. KURTZER

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PAGE 02 CAIRO 01802 211556Z DETAINEES SUSPECTED OF AFFILIATION WITH ISLAMIST TERRORIST GROUPS ON MARCH 11-13, ACCORDING TO LOCAL PRESS REPORTS. THE DETAINEES WERE RELEASED PRIOR TO THE MUSLIM 'EID AL-ADHA HOLIDAY, AND THEY INCLUDED SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF THE "ISLAMIC GROUP IN EGYPT" (IG) AND THE "JIHAD GROUP IN EGYPT" {BIJ), AS WELL AS SMALLER GROUPS WHICH HAD BEEN ACTIVE IN THE LATE 1980'S AND EARLY 1990'S SUCH AS THE "QUTBIYYUN" AND "AL-TAWAQQUF WA' L-TABAYYUN." (SEE PARA 4 FOR DESCRIPTrONS OF THESE SMALLER GROUPS.)

2. (U) WITH THIS LATEST RELEASE, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DETAINEES RELEASED SINCE HABIB AL-ADLY WAS APPOINTED MINISTER OF INTERIOR IN NOVEMBER 1997 IS ESTIMATED TO BE MORE THAN 7,000. ALL WERE BEING HELD WITHOUT TRIAL OR FOlU4AL CHARGES,

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UNDER THE EMERGENCY LAW IN FORCE IN EGYPT SINCE 1981. THE EGYPTIAN NGO "CENTER FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF PRISONERS" ISSUED UNCLASSIFIED A PRESS STATEMENT WELCOMING THE RELEASES, BUT CALLING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE ALL REMAINING DETAINEES. THE CENTER ALSO CALLED ON THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR TO SPECIFY THE CRITERIA USED IN DETERMINING WHO WOULD BE RELEASED, AND TO PUBLISH THE NUMBER AND NAMES OF THOSE RELEASED AND THOSE REMAINING IN DETENTION. IN EARLIER DISCUSSIONS WITH Ir------,I I lHE CAUTIONED US NOT TO ASSUME THAT ALL OF THE DETAINEES WERE IN FACT MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIST TERRORIST GROUPS. MANY, HE ASSERTED, WERE CAUGHT UP IN MASSIVE SECURITY ROUND-UPS DURING THE EARLY AND MID 1990' S WHEN TERRORIST ACTIVITY WAS AT ITS PEAK. 3. (C) I ICOMMENTED TO US Bl ABOUT THE:--::RE=T:-::E:-::A~S==E:-::S:--:::O:::N;--:-MARi=:-::C:::H:--:::2:-:'1-.--=T::::O:-;:H:-=I:-:::S~KN==!OWLEDGE, THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THE GOVERNMENT HAS RELEASED EIJ AS WELL AS IG CONFIDENTIAL

PAGE 03 CAIRO 01802 211556Z MEMBERS. HE SAID THE EIJ MEMBERS RELEASED HAD ALL ADOPTED THE EIJ CEASEFIRE CALL ANNOUNCED BY OSAMA ALI SADIQ (REFTEL), AND THEY INCLUDED SADIQ'S BROTHER-IN-LAW MUHAMMAD SABER SOBEIH, AND AHMAD SAYYID ABU SARIYAI. I IBELIEVES THE RELEASE OF THE EIJ MEMBERS SHOWS THE GOVERNMENT IS RESPONDING TO THE TERRORIST GROUPS' CEASEFIRE CALLS AND LACK OF VIOLENT ACTIVITY. HE ESTIMATES THAT ANOTHER 8 TO 10,000 ISLAMZSTS REMAIN IN DETENTION. I I II ESTIMATES THE TOTAL POPULATION OF POLITICAL DETAINEES TO BE 10,000.

4. (U) NOTE: THE QUTBIYYUN FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS OF AL-SAYYID QUTB, AN EGYPTIAN ISLAMIST INTELLECTUAL WHO WROTE BOOKS IN THE 1950'S AND 1960'S ADVOCATING VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF ~ "INFIDEL" EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT. QUTB WAS EXECUTED IN 1965. ACCORDING TO TERRORISM EXPERTS HERE, THE QUTBIYYUN CONTINUE TO HAVE A FEW FOLLOWERS AT LARGE IN EGYPT, THOUGH THE GROUP IS NOT ACTIVE. THE" TAWAQQUF" GROUP ADOPTED THE PRACTICES OF THE "TAFKIR WA'L HEGIRA" MOVEMENT LED BY THE EGYPTIAN PREACHER SHUKRI MUSTAFA IN THE 1970'S, INCLUDING SEGREGATING ONESELF FROM SECULAR SOCIETY AND DEEMING ALL NON-MEMBERS TO BE HERETICS. END NOTE. KURTZER

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