Egypt Frees 900 Muslim Militants [900 Terrorists Let Loose!]

Yahoo (AP) ^ | 9/30/03 | Staff

[TastyManatees]

"All 900 of them? On what charges were they imprisoned, I wonder? I'd like to see a list for all 900. After all, it was the Egyptian goverment that imprisoned them. Not a government that I would trust to identify terrorists in the first place."

Normally I would agree with you. However, this group apparently had its hands in a number of attacks on tourists and had a plan to kill Sadat, so I would guess there are quite a few of them. The article refers to another 5,000 having been released, so it looks like these 900 are somehow the core of the group.

I guess a much better headline might have been "Egypt releases 5900 terrorists".

Tasty Manatees

[samtheman]

"This shows the Egyptian government is sure now there is no threat of problems from the group. They are sure of its transformation from violence to a political group," said Diaa Rashwan, an expert on Islamic militant groups at the Cairo-based al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.

Is that really what this shows? I don't think so.