http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20035247-401,00.html
From correspondents in Dubai
"AL-QAEDA second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri announced overnight that Egypt's Jamaa Islamiya militant group was joining the global terror network, in a taped message aired by Arabic television Al-Jazeera. In the message, the Egyptian-born Zawahiri welcomed the Jamaa Islamiya's leadership "under the al-Qaeda banner." The group, which is Egypt's main militant Islamist organisation, renounced violence nine years ago after several bloody attacks. Its members were suspected of playing a role in the 1997 attack in Luxor, Egypt, which killed 62 people including many foreign tourists." [Brief]