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In continuation to the series of attempts to spread terror and fear in society, and in an attempt to delay examinations, two bombs were found close to the Azhar university containing a highly explosive TNT. 
Some human rights organizations and activists in Egyptian society put more pressure on the government to nullify the state of emergency, to make legal and procedural changes, and to enhance democracy. The head of Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Promotional Studies Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim called for...
A US federal judge postponed the case of Lin Stewart, lawyer of Omar Abdel Rahman, until January 12, 2004. Stewart is accused of helping Abdel Rahman to contact leaders of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya in Egypt.
Legal documents pertaining the latest court session in the trial of Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal assistant of the spiritual leader of the Egyptian banned group of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya revealed a strong security cooperation between the US’s FBI and UK’s Scotland Yard obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat...
The USA accused the lawyer of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, his translator, his assistant and the director of the Islamic Media Observatory in London of introducing financial aids to a terrorist group. Usama Rushdi of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya said that filing such a charge against those four is one...
An American judge allowed yesterday a fatwa of “the international front against Jews and the Crusades” announced by Ben Laden in 1998 to be included among the evidence directed against civil rights lawyer Lyn Stewart [Lawyer of Omar Abdel Rahman] and Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal deputy of the...
Since issuing the non-violence initiative, the Gama’at Al-Islamya is living in a state of disputes and division between two groups. The first group, lead by Mustafa Hamza, was the one behind issuing the non-violence initiative, in March of last year. The other group, headed by Rifai’ Taha,...
[Translator’s note: We found it necessary for the reader to distinguish between Shura Council (Maglis Al-Shura), the Egyptian equivalent of the American Senate and the British House of Lords, compared to Majlis Al-Shura (Please note the spelling used), a part of the Gama’at al-Islamiya organization...
Subtitles: They used a disagreement between me and him and threatened me to deport me if I did not cooperate with them. They accused me of leaking a statement issued by Sheikh Omar from prison urging his followers to avenge him... Three days later the Gamaa Al-Islamiyya carried out the massacre in...
In a rare public glimpse of a fierce internal debate, Islamist spiritual leader Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman denounced attempts to work within the Egyptian political system by two fledgling Islamist parties.

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