EGYPT COURT SENTENCES MILITANT LEADER TO DEATH

top Egyptian Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya leader Abdel Hamid Musa Abu Aqrab was sentenced to death for killing two police commanders and for organising bomb attacks against security officials and tourists in 1992 and 1993. A judge at the state security court referred Abu Aqrab's case for confirmation by Egypt's top religious authority. The court will announce the final verdict on October 20. Abu Aqrab was tried in absentia.