 A leader of the Egyptian Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya organization, Nagah Ibrahim, told Al-Hayat that the Egypt's Interior Ministry is preparing to release About Al-Zumar and his cousil Tareq Al-Zumar, leaders of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization, for health reasons.| This sounds like a case for Dr. Mossad. |
Past requests for pardons have been rejected but are now being reconsidered because they didn't escape from prison during the recent turmoil.| So the jihadis who did escape could have simply waited longer to get their own pardons? |
Aboud Al-Zumar, the organization's original leader, is serving a 40-year sentence for his involvement in the assassination of Sadat, and for planning a coup in Egypt during the 1970s. |