Egypt

Hezbollah confirmed that Sami Chehab, a cell leader who was arrested by Egyptian security forces, was among thousands of inmates who escaped from jails in the country. Twenty-one other Hezbollah operatives are said to have escaped Egyptian prisons.

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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