The top deputy of al-Qaeda’s No. 2 man, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, has been arrested, according to "Islamist sources in London" cited by the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute on Thursday.
"Abdallah Muhammed Rajab Abd al-Rahman, aka Ahmad Hassan Abu Al-Khir, who is in charge of al Qaeda finances and the right hand man of Ayman Al Zawahiri, has been arrested," MEMRI said.
"Abu Al-Khir was previously sentenced to death in absentia in Egypt," the news service said, based on translations of a report earlier this week in the London-based newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. |