Top al-Qaeda commander 'arrested'

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29 February 2012 Last updated at 06:31 ET

Senior al-Qaeda leader, Saif al-Adel, has been arrested at Cairo airport, Egyptian security officials say.

He had arrived in the Egyptian capital on a flight from Pakistan, which had stopped in Dubai, an airport official told the AFP news agency.

The Egyptian, whose real name is Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi, was once Osama Bin Laden's security chief and oversaw its military operations.

He is wanted by the US for the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa.

29 Feb, 2012

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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-17204128
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