In 2006, the Egyptian Interior Ministry announced that State Security Investigations had detained 22 members of a militant group suspected of planning violent attacks on civilian targets around Cairo. The Interior Ministry said the arrests were part of SSI efforts to contain terrorism—in the ministry’s words, “to abort any move to form terror organizations, proven over the past period to be posing lethal threats, stemming from their spontaneity and randomness—based on deviant extremist ideas which have nothing to do with the true Islam, and in response to the fallout from international and regional events.” Although the men were arrested, detained, and reportedly tortured, they were eventually released without explanation. There are two other groups by the same name (see separate profiles) operating out of Pakistan and Turkey, but they apparently have no affiliation with each other.
Victorious Sect - Egypt
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