Pretty neat. We had the info Saturday.
Egypt acknowledged for the first time Thursday that it is holding Mohammed al-Zawahri, the brother of Al Qaeda’s No. 2 man. Al-Zawahri had been believed to be in Egyptian police custody for at least three years, but the government never acknowledged it. He was sentenced to death in absentia for his role in Islamic Jihad attacks inside Egypt. Interior Minister Habib el-Adly said al-Zawahri would stand trial soon but did not say when. Ayman al-Zawahri, the top aide to Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, allegedly once led the military wing of Egypt’s Jihad group. He also was sentenced to death in absentia in 1999. |