Egyptian authorities have arrested the brother of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri, a security official said yesterday.
He said Mohammed al-Zawahri, leader of the Jihadi Salafist group, was detained at a checkpoint in Giza.
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.