Egypt to ask Brazil to extradite Qaeda terrorist

Egypt will forward a request to the Brazilian police to hand it over an Egyptian terrorist who has connections with Saudi-born dissident Osama Bin Laden's al-qaeda network, according to a Brazilian newspaper.

The paper quoted the police as having said that the Egyptian terrorist, Ahmad Ali Abul-Ezz El-Mahdi, son of Ibrahim Soliman who was arrested with another accomplice called El-Sa'ed Hassan Mokhlis.

Following investigations with Soliman and Mokhlis in 1999, they were released.

Mokhlis was among the accused involved in the assassination of 62 tourists in Luxor in 1997, an Egyptian report stated.