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CAIRO — Prosecutors have determined that the ousted Muslim Brotherhood was sponsoring insurgency cells in Egypt.

Prosecutors have charged an unspecified number of Islamists with forming Brotherhood cells assigned to attack the Army and police.

The prosecutors said the attacks took place in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria in 2013.

“They used firebombs and guns in their attacks, which included civilians,” a prosecution source said.

Prosecutors said the Brotherhood formed the Alexandria militia soon after the military’s ouster of Egypt’s first Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, in July 2013. They said the militia also torched a police vehicle, police station as well as stores linked to the secular opposition against Morsi. One person was killed in one of the arsons.

The Brotherhood defendants were also accused of gathering information on police and Army officers around Alexandria. Prosecutors said the information was used to form a hit list of law enforcement personnel and opposition activists targeted for attack.

This marked the latest link made by authorities between the Islamic
revolt and the Brotherhood. Officials said the intelligence community has
determined cooperation between the Brotherhood and Al Qaida-aligned
militias, particularly Ansar Beit Maqdis.

The Interior Ministry also cited a Brotherhood link to another
insurgency cell. On March 3, the ministry said the alleged 11-member
Brotherhood cell operated in the Nile Delta city of Damenhour and targeted
policemen and their vehicles.

“They also established websites and cells to foment attacks against
police,” the ministry said.

  Ansar Beit Maqdis, Damenhour, Mohammed Morsi, Prosecutors charge Muslim Brotherhood with forming insurgency cells to attack Egyptian forces