Cairo: Egyptian accused in Tanzania is Islamic Group dissident

Informed Egyptian sources said that citizen Mustafa Mahmoud Sayed Ahmed, accused by the Tanzanian authorities of being involved with a Tanzanian citizen named Rachid Saleh in the explosion that destroyed the US embassy in Dar es Salaam on August 7.

The Egyptian was a dissident from the Islamic Group years earlier and joined the El-Kaada regulation established by Osama Bin Laden.

The sources said that Rachiedy Abu Obida El-Benshiri, one of the most prominent assistants of Osama Bin Laden, helped Sayed Ahmed arrive in Africa, where the latter moved between several African countries in east Africa, including Kenya, Congo and Tanzania.

The sources said that Sayed Ahmed worked in African countries in the copper trade with Arab foreign partners, yet he used aliases in his movements, including Sheik Saleh and Mostafa El-Gamal.