Hamas Support In Egypt

‘QAEDA’ IN EGYPT CALL

DUBAI - A man described as a leader of al Qaeda’s wing in Egypt is calling for attacks in support of Hamas on Israeli and Western targets in the Arab world’s most populous country.

“Oh, heroes, strike . . . all the Zionist crusader targets in the land of Egypt without shedding the blood of Muslims,” Mohamed Hakaima wrote in an Internet posting.

But Kamal Habib, a former Islamist now an expert on such groups, doubts that “al Qaeda has a presence in Egypt in the organizational sense, [though] some people there may believe in [its] ideas.”