A leader of the Egyptian Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya organization, Nagah Ibrahim, told Al-Hayat that the Egypt's Interior Ministry is preparing to release About Al-Zumar and his cousil Tareq Al-Zumar, leaders of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization, for health reasons.This sounds like a case for Dr. Mossad. | Past requests for pardons have been rejected but are now being reconsidered because they didn't escape from prison during the recent turmoil.So the jihadis who did escape could have simply waited longer to get their own pardons? | Aboud Al-Zumar, the organization's original leader, is serving a 40-year sentence for his involvement in the assassination of Sadat, and for planning a coup in Egypt during the 1970s. |