Bin Laden's deputy announces Egyptian militant group has joined al-Qaida

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Media:The Associated Press
Byline:n/a
Date:05 August 2006


CAIRO, Egypt_Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader announced in a new videotape aired
Saturday that an Egyptian militant group has joined the terror network.

The Egyptian group, Gamaa Islamiya, is apparently a revived version of a
militant group that waged a campaign of violence in Egypt during the 1990s
but had largely been suppressed by a government crackdown.

"We announce to the Islamic nation the good news of the unification of a
great faction of the knights of the Gamaa Islamiya ... with the Al-Qaida
group," Ayman al-Zawahri, the deputy leader of al-Qaida said in the
videotape aired on the Al-Jazeera news network.
 
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