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London, UK: Al-Sharq al-Awsat in Arabic 02 Jun 03 p7 [Report by Muhammad al-Shafi'i in London: "Fundamentalists' Sources in London Confirm Presence of Persons Associated With Al-Zawahiri in Iran's Prisons"] Fundamentalists' sources in the British capital have disclosed that Iran has been detaining several senior Egyptian figures who are believed to be al-Qa'ida members for about a year. The sources, which have close links with the fundamentalist tendency inside Iran, said there are negotiations between Cairo and Tehran to extradite the leaders who are close to Egyptian Jihad leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and are being held in Iran in secret without...

NewsMax reported in a story “Report Links LAX Shooter to Egyptian Jihad “ on July 5, 2002 that the LAX gunman Hesham Mohamed Hadayet was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad cell in Brooklyn, New York which helped Ramzi Youseff carry out the 1993 WTC attack. But the NewsMax story further reported that Hadayat abetted the pilot Gameel el-Batouty who deliberately crashed Egypt Air Flight 767 after it departing Los Angeles and was en route to Cairo via Kennedy airport in New York on October 31, 1999. The NewMax story also quoted other sources:. "Our sources affirm that Hadayat,...

NewsMax reports: "Hayadet was a radical Muslim extremist involved in terrorism, the respected Israeli intelligence Web site DEBKA.com reported today. "During his ten years in the United States, he was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad who maintained undercover links to the same Jihad cell in Brooklyn, New York, as the 'blind sheikh' Abdul Rahim Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first attack on the New York World Trade Center in 1993," DEBKA said....also believed to have abetted a previous, contrived airline disaster: On October 31, 1999, an Egyptair Boeing 767 Flight 990...copilot Gameel...