Egypt

Security forces arrested 19 al Qaeda operatives from Tunisia and Libya. The men were transiting Egypt to join al Qaeda in Iraq. The interior minister denied they had any link to the New Years Day suicide attack on a Coptic church in Alexandria.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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