This was reported on 2/28 by Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/526301.cms Brother of al-Zawahri to be retried in Egypt
AFP[ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2004 09:30:23 PM ]
CAIRO : 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.
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.
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.
Under Egyptian law, a person sentenced in absentia must be retried upon his
return to Egypt .
SP2BF you need to forward that article to Fox News. The story of al-Zawahri's brother being in prison in Egypt for the past 3 years was on Fox News alerts all day today.
David Asner interviewed Senator Pat Roberts this morning on Fox News Live and even questioned the Senator if the US had knowledge of this, in which the Senator responded that he could not answer that question.