Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded and led by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, now Al Qaeda's co-leader.
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The Muslim Brotherhood's progeny include Hamas, al Qaida and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, among others.
Mohamed Al-Zawahiri is a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, of which his brother was once a leader.
In 1998, Zawahiri formally merged Egyptian Islamic Jihad with Al Qaeda and has served as co-leader of Al Qaeda ever since.
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Some did admit that Lynne Stewart did abuse the attorney-client relationship by illegally acting as a courier for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
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Zawahiri is known to have worked in the Al Qaeda organization since its inception, while he was still leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in fact.
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Another outgrowth of the Brotherhood, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, is led by Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, who merged his organization into the al Qaeda network in 1998.
Libya and Sudan get good marks for trying to mend their ways, though al-Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad still use Sudan as a safe-haven for logistical purposes at least.
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Iraq's relationship with Egyptian Islamic Jihad was so close that captured documents indicate that Iraq was able to request that the group hold off on operations against the regime in Egypt in 1993.
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Islamic Jihad Organization (Egyptian Islamic Jihad).
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On October 6, 1981, Gamal, then seventeen, was sitting in the grandstand, eight seats away from President Anwar Sadat, at a military procession commemorating the 1973 Yom Kippur war with Israel. (His father was then the Vice-President.) Four soldiers assassins from the radical group Egyptian Islamic Jihad broke from the ranks and turned toward the stand, firing automatic rifles and hurling grenades.
Islamic Jihad killed an American soldier in Turkey and wounded an Egyptian diplomat on the same day in October 1991.
Its violent offshoots include the faction that assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the Palestinian terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
So the latest reversal by a prominent member of Islamic Jihad is a dramatic event even if it prompted Mr Zawahiri to ask caustically whether Egyptian jail cells now had fax machines, and whether they ran on the same electricity source as the instruments of torture.
From Sudan, members of Al Jihad watched enviously as a much larger organization, the Islamic Group, waged open warfare on the Egyptian state.
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