Interior Ministry denies El-Jihad group threat against US targets

Official security sources in the Egyptian Ministry of Interior denied that there is any information possessed the ministry about a threat from the El-Jihad organization to strike at US targets.

The information office of the Jihad group in Egypt issued a statement in which the group threatened to launch retaliatory attacks against US interests in Egypt, replying to the US role in arresting four leaders while they were in Albania and extradite them to the Egyptian authorities. The leaders in question are Ibrahim El-Sayed El-Naggar, who is sentenced to death on charges of planning to blow up Khan El-Khalili market in Cairo; Maged Mostafa; Mohammed Hoda; and Mohammed Hassan Mohmoud."

The statement accused the Albanian authorities of conspiring with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and US intelligence to extradite four members of the Jihad group to Egypt.

The Albanian Ministry of Interior announced the kidnapping of Maged Mostafa and Mohamed Hata by unknown persons.