Disorder Committee (Ikhwani Entity, Egypt)

• Local Name: لجان الارتباك
• Transliteration: Lijan al-Irtibak
• Alternatives: N/a
• Status: 2016 – 2016 (Defeated)
• Conflicts: Islamist Political Violence in Egypt

The Disorder Committee [LaI; Lijan al-Irtibak] was a small Ikhwani militant group active in the city of Iskandariya and the suburbs of Muharrem Bey and Sidi Gabr. The outfit was led by local Muslim Brotherhood leader Mustafa Hammam.¹ It emerged in the beginning of 2016. On Jan. 24, LaI militants set fire to a money transport vehicle outside a bank.² Over the next months, the group was responsible for nine other arson attacks, targeting buses, a vehicle of the Egyptian investment authority, a Libyan diplomatic car and a van belonging to the PepsiCo company.³ The authorities rolled up the LaI in June 2016 when police arrested thirteen of its members, including Hammam, during a series of raids on their homes.⁴