Egypt: Detained terror suspect not al-Adel CAIRO, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- An Egyptian man detained Wednesday at Cairo's airport says he was once linked to al-Qaida but is not the suspected terrorist Saif al-Adel. Mohamed Ibrahim Makkawi was detained for questioning after he arrived at the Cairo airport from Pakistan, following a layover in Dubai. He says he is not the Mohamed Ibrahim Makkawi who is believed to have taken a top post in al-Qaida after Osama bin Laden's death. Adel is on the FBI's "most wanted" list for the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, the FBI said on its Web site. The FBI said Adel uses the name Mohamed Ibrahim Makkawi as an alias. While it took several hours following his arrest to convince Egyptian officials of his identity, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior has confirmed that al-Adel is still at large, CNN said. "Mohamed Ibrahim Makkawi is not Saif al-Adel," the ministry said. There is obvious confusion of data among security apparatus and the media. They are two different people.  CNN says the mix-up is not a surprise, given the similarities between the two men. Both men were Egyptian military officers who joined the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Makkawi was a major and and Adel was a lieutenant. Both men eventually left Egypt for Pakistan and joined Osama bin Laden's jihad. A CNN source said Makkawi fell out with bin Laden and current al-Qaida leader Ayman al Zawahiri, soon after arriving in Pakistan. The source said Makkawi had given up fighting in 1990 and became a writer. CNN said Makkawi has regularly been confused with Adel and adopted the e-mail address "Unjustly_Guilty@.....," as part of a campaign to clear his name. Makkawi wrote to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in 2009 that tells of his struggle to live a normal life. "I am trying to resettle my normal life in Pakistan after getting married to a Pakistani lady but have accomplished nothing as a result of the Egyptian and Saudi regime's pressure on Pakistani agencies and my moral obduracy," he said in the letter obtained by CNN. The Interior Ministry says Makkawi still faces criminal charges for alleged terrorism and conspiracy to topple the regime. He will remain in detention, officials said.