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<text>
<title>
Egypt: Global Terrorism
</title>
<article>
<hdr>
Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
Middle Eastern Overview: Egypt
</hdr>
<body>
<p> There were no terrorist attacks against Americans or US
interests in Egypt in 1991, despite concerns of such attacks in
support of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
</p>
<p> US and Egyptian security services cooperated closely on
security and antiterrorism matters. During the Persian Gulf war,
Egyptian security forces reported several apparent terrorist
threats against US interests in Egypt. Egyptian security agents
arrested a number of individuals suspected of planning terrorist
acts against Egyptian or Western targets.
</p>
<p> In early September, Egyptian authorities arrested armed
agents of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) who had entered
Egypt with the intention of committing terrorist acts. In
November, Israeli security forces intercepted four armed
Palestinians who had entered the Israeli Negev from the Sinai.
It is quite likely that these terrorists entered Egypt from a
third country with the intention of infiltrating into Israel for
future terrorist attacks. There are unconfirmed reports that two
bodies found on a Gaza beach in December were terrorists who
drowned while attempting an attack that may have been launched
from Egyptian territory.
</p>
<p> The radical Islamic group Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyaa is believed
responsible for a number of armed robberies of local Egyptian
merchants in 1991 but has conducted no major terrorist incident
since the October 1990 assassination of assembly speaker
al-Mahgoub. This group seeks the violent overthrow of the
Government of Egypt but is not known to have attacked US or
other Western targets. More important, it receives support from
Iran and has established networks with several counterparts in
the Arab world and elsewhere.
</p>
<p>Source: United States Department of State, April 1992.
</p>
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</article>
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