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Brother of al-Qaeda's second-in-command arrested again in Egypt
Mar 20, 2011, 21:57 GMT
Cairo - Mohamed al-Zawahiri, brother of al-Qaeda's second highest commander, was arrested two days after he released from custody in Egypt, a security source said Sunday.
Mohamed al-Zawahiri, who was re-arrested on Saturday, had spent more than 10 years in prison.
An Egyptian court tried him in absentia in 1998 and sentenced him to death.
He will face military prosecution to re-asses procedures taken during his 1998 case, the security source said.
Mohamed al-Zawahiri is known to have been a military commander in the terrorist network Islamic Jihad, leading the group's activities in Bosnia and Albania during the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
His brother, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is Osama bin Laden's top deputy in the al-Qaeda network.
The brothers are believed to have led the Islamic Jihad movement in Egypt.
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