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To: Snowshoe who wrote (80847)	3/9/2003 11:59:23 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 281500

Egypt arrests 15 Jihad suspects theaustralian.news.com.au March 09, 2003 EGYPTIAN police have arrested 15 people accused of belonging to the banned Jihad group of Osama bin Laden's top aide Ayman al-Zawahiri, judicial sources have said. Police, who made the arrests in the northern Mediterranean region of Alexandria on Thursday, also found arms and leaflets calling for the overthrow of the regime in their homes, the sources said. The accused will be referred to the state security court, the sources added, without specifying a date for the trial. Emergency laws in force in Egypt for more than 20 years allow the authorities to defer a trial indefinitely by repeatedly extending the standard 15-day custody order. Zawahiri disappeared after the US-led campaign against Afghanistan began more than a year ago, but Islamist leaders in Egypt say he is still alive. Police had reported the arrest in early January of 43 members of his group, charged with plotting attacks on Western interests and political figures. The Jihad and the larger Jamaa Islamiya group launched a violent campaign in 1992 to topple President Hosni Mubarak's secular regime that claimed the lives of 1,300 people, including scores of tourists. The Jamaa announced in 1998 it was abandoning violence, and repentant Jihad members reported in 1999 a similar decision, but Zawahiri did not confirm it from his exile in Afghanistan. Rights groups say there are about 15,000 Islamic militants in Egyptian prisons.