Several websites supporting the group were hacked simultaneously, and protests in Cairo were confronted by plain clothed Egyptian policemen and numerous arrests.

Egyptian paramilitary policemen killed 14 Muslim militants on Monday in a gunfight in which 13 people were also wounded, including 7 policemen, security officials said today.

The gunman killed one of the Egyptian policeman who tried to arrest him.

Egyptian policemen opened fire to disperse Muslim fundamentalist demonstrators on Monday night, killing one person and arresting 12, security officials said.

The death of several Egyptian policemen who were shot by Israeli soldiers in Sinai last month did not help.

Hassan was trying to figure out what was going on when an Egyptian policeman came over.

Up ahead, they all saw a barrier strung across the road, several MPs and Egyptian policemen with rifles and machineguns manning the blockade.

As well as butchering a couple of Egyptian policemen.

An Egyptian policeman, making the same mistake outside the tomb of a 12th-century holy man, says: "That's not a problem.

Before it was over, sixty-two people, including four Egyptian policemen, lay dead.