2 arrested over High Court bombings in Egypt

Two suspects in the terror bombings outside the High Court of Justice in downtown Cairo earlier this month were arrested, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
Two bombs were set off outside the court HQ, leaving two persons killed and a number of citizens and policemen injured.
According to investigations, leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) abroad had, after the arrest of senior members inside the country, altered the organization's ideology and renounced its peacefulness officially while connecting it with other Takfiri groups, Interior Ministry spokesman Hany Abdel Latif said.
Security bodies identified the extremist groups whose ideology accorded well with the MB, including "Agnad Masr, Ansar Beit al Maqdis, Islamic Group and Hazemoon Movement", Abdel Latif added.
Those groups have already created armed cells under different names such as "Helwan Brigades, Revolutionary Punishment, Execution Brigades and Black Bloc against Coup" to claim responsibility for the terror attacks, to delude the public opinion into believing that terror groups exist in large numbers and to clear the MB's name from the attacks, the ministry spokesman noted.
One of the detainees, an MB member, was arrested while planting an explosive charge at a café in Qasr Al Aini Street in downtown Cairo. He was referred to the Higher State Security Prosecution, where he admitted his connection with the High Court of Justice attack.