A brother of Al-Qaeda terror network number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, already sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court, will be retried here, a court official said Saturday.
| One question: why? Given that this is Egypt, the sentence is unlikely to change ... |
| It's double secret probation! |
Mohammed al-Zawahri, a member of the Islamist Al-Jihad movement led by his brother Ayman, was extradited to Egypt by an Arab country in 2001 and is currently being held in an Egyptian prison, the official said.
| Be mighty interesting to learn which "Arab country" this was and whether or not it was before or after 9/11. One possibility is Sudan, where the EIJ was based throughout the 1990s. |
Mohammed al-Zawahri, head of Jihad's military wing, was sentenced to die in 1999 in a trial of 107 people accused of "belonging to Jihad and working to overthrow the regime" of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the source said.
The official was unable to say when the new trial would begin.
| "We'll get to it as soon as he stops screaming ..." |
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