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Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat stresses that he is the lawyer of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya and that he has no organizational relationship with them because he does not want to subject himself to punishment by law. Many of his statements on the activities of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya show that he is not...
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002
The Swedish authorities had received three written guarantees from Egypt before handing over the Egyptian fundamentalist leader Ahmed Agiza. The first is that Agiza will not be tortured when he comes back to Egypt, the second guarantee is that Agiza will be re-prosecuted by non-military courts. The...
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2002
Lawyer Tharwat Shehata, the second most important man in the Jihad organization, is recommended by the Egyptian fundamentalists to succeed Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahri in leading the Jihad organization. Shehata is known among the radical fundamentalists as Abu Al-Sam´.
Date of source: Sunday, January 20, 2002
According to the book by General Fou´ad Alam, “The Brotherhood and I,” it was Montasser Al-Zayyat and not Al-Zawahri who led the security men to the place of Essam Al-Qamri, the founder of the Jihad organization. By contrast to what Al-Zayyat recounted, Al-Zawahri did not act as a witness for...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat said that the the real aim of his book “Al-Zawahri as I knew him” is to shed light on how the Gama´at Al-Islamiya started to reconsider its mechanisms. Al-Zayyat tackles the character of Ayman Al-Zawahri from many angles. He first speaks about his childhood and how he was...
Date of source: Saturday, January 12, 2002 to Friday, January 18, 2002
Al-Zawahri accused Montasser Al-Zayyat of enjoying the protection of the security forces. Al-Zawahri´s implied accusation is that Al-Zayyat is an agent for the Egyptian security bodies. Al-Zawahri himself has once acted as an agent for the security bodies. After the assassination of President...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 8, 2002
The administration of the Egyptian prisons separated the imprisoned members of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya from the members of Jihad organization who refused the initiative of denouncing violence. This separation came at the same time as the Egyptian prisons administration allowed the leaders of...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The administration of the Egyptian prisons department organized some meetings for the leaders of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya imprisoned in Tura prison with members of other Gama´at Islamiya jailed in other prisons. Moreover, more than one thousand prisoners of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya have recently been...
Date of source: Sunday, January 6, 2002
As a reaction to Ayman Al-Zawahri´s book “Knights Under the Flag of the Prophet,” Montasser Al-Zayyat wrote a book titled “Ayman Al-Zawahri as I knew [him].” The book expresses Al-Zayyat´s perception of the history of the Islamic movement in Egypt through writing a biography of Al-Zawahri...
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat believes that it is not right at all to say that Arabs and Muslims should target Americans because America is targeting their nations and children. He added that a new plan was to be adopted by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. The plan insists that Islam is not just violence and counter...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.