Friday, August 05, 2005

Zawahiri captured in 2002?

What was this 2002 story in the Guardian about? Just asking.... Zawahiri is the one speaking in the recent al Qaeda video warning of new terrorist attacks.

Bin Laden's No. 2 'Captured in Iran'

Osama bin Laden's most senior lieutenant, the Egyptian militant Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been captured and jailed in Tehran, a leading Iranian newspaper reported yesterday.

Zawahiri, the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, was arrested several days ago and has been imprisoned in the city's Evin jail, where political prisoners are usually held, the Hayat-e-Nou newspaper said....


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