ALERT Senior al-Qaeda leader Saif al-Adel arrested in Egypt

Cairo: Senior al-Qaeda leader Saif al-Adel has been arrested at the Cairo airport in Egypt, media reports said on Wednesday.

According to reports, Adel travelled from Pakistan to Egypt via Dubai.

He was among those on the  Most Wanted List of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with 5 million dollar bounty on his head and was  hing ranking leaders of al-Qaeda leaders.

He was also expected  to be new chief of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden’s demise but Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri was given the charge of global terror outfit.

  Egyptian born Adel was head of the military wing of al-Qaeda .