Egypt arrests militants recruiting for ISIS
Egypt's
state news agency says security forces have arrested four suspected members of
a militant cell recruiting fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.
The MENA news agency reported on Sunday that the four suspects, all of Egyptian
nationality, were arrested in the Suez Canal city of Port Said. The report
quotes a senior local security official as saying the four confessed to
recruiting young fighters to join the Islamic State militants in Syria. The
agency says that according to the men's confessions, another four Egyptians,
also members of the cell, are already in Syria. The men are being held pending
investigation [AP, Ahram Online, Reuters
,
10/5/2014]
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