Plot to overthrow Egyptian president foiled

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JERUSALEM – Egypt has arrested a leader of a major domestic opposition group who allegedly confessed to plotting the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, an Egyptian official told the Galil Report.

The suspect, identified as Abed al-Munemhem Abu al-Futuh of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, allegedly admitted during interrogation to planning the coup. Cairo is withholding details.

Egyptian officials told the Galil Report investigators are focusing on a series of conversations al-Futuh had with Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Syria.

The plot was halted just days after Mahdi Akif, leader of the Brotherhood in Egypt, announced his group would train members in military tactics to fight alongside Hezbollah in Lebanon and to join Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip, which borders the Egyptian Sinai desert.

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In response to the heated rhetoric and to specific warnings regarding other terror groups, particularly al-Qaida-affiliated cells in Sinai, Egypt has raised the level of alertness in the country and has placed security agencies on heightened alert levels.

A fundamentalist Islamic group, the Muslim Brotherhood – along with its Palestinian counterpart, Hamas – aspires to create a pan-Arab theocracy throughout the Middle East. Israeli security officials tell the Galil Report Brotherhood leader Akif has been serving the past few years as a de facto spiritual leader of Hamas, ever since Israel assassinated spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin in March 2004.

Mubarak considers the Brotherhood a major challenge to his government. It scored very well in the latest Egyptian elections, winning an unprecedented 20 percent of the Parliament and trouncing all other opposition parties in spite of widespread reports of massive election tampering on the part of Mubarak's National Democratic Party. Mubarak also arrested more than 1,500 Brotherhood activists prior to the elections.

A number of Brotherhood leaders in Egypt have told reporters their group is strengthened by the Hamas ascension to power in the Palestinian territories and that they plan a similar power grab in Egypt.

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