Police probe if Muslim Brotherhood have set a militia in Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt: Police have started a probe into whether the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's top Islamic opposition group, is setting up a military wing after members demonstrated in a Cairo university in black-clad militia-style uniform, security officials said Monday.
About 50 Brotherhood student members staged a military-style parade in black uniform and balaklavas during a protest Sunday by hundreds of Broterhood supporters at the Al-Azhar Islamic University campus.
A security official told The Associated Press that the police had opened an investigation into whether the group has set up a militia.
A Muslim Brotherhood leader denied any military training or setting an armed wing."We have no militia and no military wing," Mohammad Seyed Habib, the group's deputy leader, told the AP.
"I am very surprised. We are a peaceful group," he said.
None of the Brotherhood members were arrested during Sunday's demonstration, called to protest the expulsion of some Brotherhood supporters from universities. None of the students was armed.
Police were gathering evidence on the students, trying to determine if they acted on their own in wearing the uniforms or on instructions from the Brotherhood's leadership, security officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
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