Egyptian security arrests wanted terrorist

The Egyptian security forces arrested a terrorist who had been sentenced by the Higher State Security Court for 15 years in prison for breaking into jewelry shops in Cairo. The terrorist is a member of the clandestine Gamaa Islamiya (Islamic Group).

Security sources informed ArabicNews.com that the Egyptian Ministry of Interior received information about Hussein Abdalla Abdel Malek's hiding place, a flat in Alexandria, where the police moved in to arrest him without firing a shot.

The sources added that the terrorist belongs to the Gamaa Islamiya and had participated in breaking into jewelry shops in the capital and was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison.

Egyptian security forces are trying to find out whether he had a hand in the Luxor attack in which 70 tourists were killed.