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Egyptian group 'joins' al-QaedaBBCAug. 06, 2006 |
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 Al-Qaeda's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced that Egypt's Gamaa Islamiya militant group has joined the global terror network. The statement was made in a video tape aired by Arabic television Al-Jazeera. Gamaa Islamiya was once Egypt's largest militant group. It mounted attacks on tourists and Christians in the 1990s. It declared a ceasefire in 1999 and some of its leaders went on to renounce violence. Hundreds of the group's members have been freed since then. "We announce... the good news of the unification of a great faction of the knights of the Gamaa Islamiya... with the al-Qaeda group," Zawahiri said in the video tape. There is no word from the Gamaa Islamiya itself. Attacks blamed on the group include the November 1997 assault at Luxor which killed 58 people, most of them foreign tourists. 
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