Zawahiri's brother acquitted in new trial

CAIRO: An Egyptian military court on Monday acquitted the brother of al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mohammed al-Zawahiri, overturning a death sentence in a new trial, his lawyer and his son told AFP.The court also acquitted Mohammed Islambouli, whose brother Khaled assassinated former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981, they said. They had been convicted of planning terrorist attacks. "Thank God, he was found innocent," Zawahiri's son Abdelrahman told AFP by telephone after the verdict... more

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