Investigations of Jundallah members by the State Security Prosecution Office revealed that this organization's cells had resumed their activities but changed their objectives. Support for the Palestinian intifada and the targeting of US interests had replaced fighting or toppling President Hosni Mubarak's regime as their first objective.
Some members of this group tried unsuccessfully to cross the Egyptian border into the Palestinian territories last August. Other members were ordered to carry out terrorist operations against foreign interests in Egypt, including the Israeli embassy, and prepared a plan to bomb the US embassy by crashing a tourist bus into it. It was intended to implement this plan during Friday prayers so as not to injure Egyptians who might be near the embassy during normal working hours.
The old Jihad organizations never took into consideration whether Egyptians might be killed in their operations. Another difference between the old and new organizations is that the first used mosques as venues of communication between members, while now communication is by carrier pigeons or through the Internet.
One of the members [of Jundallah] is Muhammad Ahmed Darraj, 25, who has a degree in qualitative education and is from Al Mahallah Al Kubra. He is assisted by Izzat Al Najjar, also from Al Mahallah.
