The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

Group claims responsibility for bombing

Al Arabiya is reporting that an unknown Islamic group has claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack on its Web site. The group calls itself "كتائب العز الاسلامية بارض النيل", or something akin in English to "The Islamic Pride Brigades in the Land of the Nile." Al Arabiya reports that the group said that one of its members carried out the bombing and described it as a suicide attack protesting what they describe as the oppression of the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the American policies in the region. Al Arabiya said it could not varify the accuracy of the claim.