BIG CATCH BY EGYPTIAN POLICE!!!!
The brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has been arrested by police in Egypt, security sources said Saturday.
Mohammed al-Zawahri, the younger brother of the terror network leader, was detained at a checkpoint in the Cairo suburb of Giza, the sources said.
He has been a vocal supporter of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement and the more extreme group to which he belongs, Al Gama’a Al Islamiya.
The arrest of the younger al-Zawahri came as more than 1,000 Brotherhood supporters and others opposed to the military’s overthrow of Islamist Morsi were detained Friday as mass protests turned violent.
Mohammed al-Zawahri was transferred from a police station to a maximum security prison out of concern his supporters would attempt to free him from the police station, the sources said. Police stations have been coming under attack in recent days.
WHOA that dude got busted it
I hear unconfirmed report via Al Jazeera twitter feed props to Egyptian cops
It will be interesting how our government intelligence agencies and Obama react to this news. You know they would like to ‘interview’ Zawahiri’s brother and I doubt the Egyptian military will oblige them at this point.