Egypt intelligence confirms Muslim Brotherhood ties with Al Qaida
Special to WorldTribune.com
CAIRO — For the first time, Egypt has linked the Muslim Brotherhood to Al Qaida.
The charred remains of an armored vehicle are loaded onto a truck after a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a police checkpoint that killed a police colonel in El Arish, Egypt on July 12, 2013. /AP/Muhammed Sabry
Officials said the intelligence community has determined cooperation between the Brotherhood and Al Qaida.
The officials said the Brotherhood was financing the Al Qaida-linked insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula as well as on the African mainland.
“It [Brotherhood] supports and massively finances from abroad numerous radical terrorists in several groups,” Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said.
In a briefing on Nov. 23, Ibrahim said the Brotherhood was contracting Al Qaida and other groups to attack Egyptian military and security forces.
Ibrahim said the campaign began in wake of the military overthrow of Egypt’s first Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, in July.