On October 24, Egyptian officials raided an apartment in Nasr City, a neighborhood in Cairo, suspected of housing a terrorist cell with ties to the September 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. A firefight ensued and one of the suspected terrorists was killed. An Egyptian police official explained to Agence France Presse that the man “is suspected of having connections with the group that carried out the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.”

While the Nasr City raid has received little attention in the American press, it has led to a slew of reports in the Egyptian and Arabic media. Not all of these reports are consistent with another, of course, as there is still significant uncertainty surrounding the whole affair. The investigation is still in its beginning stages. But Egyptian officials have openly connected the Nasr City cell to al Qaeda.