Brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri arrested in Egypt: Sources

Cairo: An Egyptian security official says the brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri has been arrested in Egypt. The official said Saturday that Mohammed al-Zawahri, leader of the ultraconservative Jihadi Salafist group, was detained at a checkpoint in Giza, the city across the Nile from Cairo. [caption id=“attachment_1041001” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Ayman al-Zawahri. AP[/caption] The official declined to give further details. He spoke anonymously as he was not authorized to speak to the press. Mohammed Al-Zawahri’s group espouses a hard-line ideology but was not clandestine prior to Egypt’s July 3 coup. He was allied with ousted President Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist, whose supporters are now taking to the streets to protest the killings of its supporters in a security crackdown last week. Authorities said earlier that al-Zawahri had commanded insurgents in Sinai Peninsula. AP