Egypt Arrests Brother Of Al-Qaeda Chief

Mohammed al-Zawahri Egyptian authorities have arrested the
brother of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-
Zawahri, security officials said. Mohammed al-Zawahri, leader of a Salafist
group, was detained at a checkpoint in Giza,
the city across the Nile from Cairo. Mohammed al-Zawahri’s group espouses a
hardline ideology but was not clandestine
prior to the military takeover on July 3. He was allied with ousted President
Mohamed Morsi, whose supporters are now
taking to the streets to protest the killings
of its supporters in a security crackdown
last week. The official news agency, MENA, confirmed
the arrest. Authorities said earlier that Mohammed al-
Zawahri had commanded fighters in Sinai
Peninsula. He was detained as part of a round up of
more than than 1,000 Islamists in the
country. The round up, announced by the
authorities, was conducted after Friday’s
protests. Mohammed al-Zawahiri had been seen in
Cairo in January at protests outside the
French Embassy by hundreds of Salafists
against the French military campaign in Mali.