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February 29, 2012

Egypt Claims Arrest of Top Al-Qaeda Leader 
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Egypt's military government says it has arrested a top al-Qaeda
operative at the Cairo airport. Saif al-Adel is alleged to have briefly
taken the helm of al-Qaeda following the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Egyptian officials say al-Adel was detained on a lay-over flight from
Pakistan. Al-Adel is on the FBI's most-wanted list in connection with
the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.



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