Egyptian group joins al Qaeda; al-Zawahri

Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader said in a new videotape aired Saturday that an Egyptian militant group has joined the terror network.

It was the first time that al Qaeda has announced a branch in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation. The Egyptian group, Gamaa Islamiya, is apparently a revived version of a militant group of the same name that waged a campaign of violence in Egypt during the 1990s but was crushed in a government crackdown.

As pointed out by Misha at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, this may have extra relevance due to the 11 missing Egyptian alleged “students” the Chief noted previously.