Egypt Releases Details on American Man
December 11, 2006 Egypt Releases Details on American Man By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:48 p.m. ET CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Security officials in Egypt released new details Monday about an American man in their custody on suspicion of links to a terror network which allegedly recruits Muslims to fight the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. In Washington, the administration said Monday it expected an American detained in Egypt as a suspected terrorist to be freed. ''Our expectation is that he will be released and that he will be able to leave Egypt,'' said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, who did not identify the man because of privacy laws. The American was arrested late last month along with 11 Europeans and an unknown number of Egyptians and Arabs from other countries who were accused of belonging to an Islamist terror cell plotting attacks. Egyptian authorities expelled eight French citizens and two Belgians on Thursday. Another French citizen was in custody along with the American. The State Department has criticized Egypt for refusing to grant U.S. officials timely access to the arrested American. Egyptian authorities have told U.S. officials that no access will be granted until the investigation is completed. An Egyptian security official identified the American as Grey Warren, from Ohio, and said he came to Egypt earlier this year to study at Al-Azhar Islamic University, Sunni Islam's most important seat of learning. The official read the name from a security prosecutors' document in Arabic and because of difficulties in transliteration, it was not known exactly how the man spelled his name in English. A State Department official would not confirm whether the name given by the Egyptian security official was correct, citing privacy laws. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo has not identified the man in custody and said it has not had access to him in jail. Two Egyptian security officials said investigators were trying to determine what the American had been doing in Egypt before his arrest. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to reporters. The American has maintained his innocence during questioning, they said. The Interior Ministry has said the suspects allegedly were living in Egypt under the guise of studying Arabic and had formed a militant cell that was plotting attacks. ''They were seeking to recruit others, teach them destructive beliefs, urging them toward jihad, and traveling to Iraq to carry out operations via other countries in the region,'' the ministry said in a statement. Security officials also said the suspects had a relationship with Omar Abdullah Hamra, the leader of the Islamic militant group Tawhid and Jihad, who killed himself by detonating an explosives belt while trying to cross into Lebanon from Syria. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. After the arrest, Egypt's leading newspaper, Al Ahram, citing government sources, also said the American was being questioned for possible links with al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri. Egypt has seen a series of suicide attacks in recent years at tourist resorts in the Sinai Peninsula. The country operates under emergency laws that give the government wide powers to detain suspects without charging them. The laws have been in place since the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981, despite a growing chorus of opposition from both inside and outside the country. <http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Egypt-American-Questioned.html?pag ewanted=print> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Egypt-American-Questioned.html?page wanted=print _____ FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. 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