Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri's uncle, who won a number of national medical awards, has died of a heart attack, Egypt's leading newspaper reported Friday.
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Dr. Mohammed al-Zawahri, a dermatologist who received the presidential Award in Medical Sciences and the Republic's First Class medal, died Thursday in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Al-Ahram reported. It did not give his age. The paper, which is close to the Egyptian government, did not mention the blood relationship between the doctor and Osama bin Laden's deputy and closest aide, Ayman al-Zawahri. However, Mahfouz Azzam, another uncle of al-Zawahri, told The Associated Press that Mohammed al-Zawahri was considered the "chief" of (Ayman) al-Zawahri's family. Montasser el-Zayat, an Egyptian attorney who defends Islamic radicals and who spent three years in prison with Ayman al-Zawahri, told the AP the dermatologist was the uncle of the man believed to have provided much of the ideology driving al-Qaida since his Egyptian Islamic Jihad merged with bin Laden's terror network in 1998.
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