Muhammad al-Zawahiri

Muhammad al-Zawahiri
Born	1953 (age 63–64) Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Muhammad Rabee al-Zawahiri (born 1953) is an Egyptian Islamist who was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and one of 14 people subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA prior to the 2001 War on Terror. He is the younger brother of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

A 1974 graduate of the engineering college at Cairo University, al-Zawahiri moved to Saudi Arabia and took work with a construction firm.

In 1981, his name was among those indicted in absentia for the assassination of Anwar Sadat after his brother implicated him in recruiting the Egyptians Mustafa Kamel Mustafa and Abdel Hadi al-Tunsi while living in Saudi Arabia, but he was found not guilty of the charge. He joined the World Islamic Relief Organization, and traveled to Indonesia, Bosnia and Malawi where he helped build schools and medical clinics.

Married with 6 kids, al-Zawahiri moved to Yemen with his family, and then joined his older brother in Khartoum, where al-Jihad had begun to congregate. But after the group was forced to leave following the execution of the teenaged son of Ahmad Salama Mabruk, Ayman went to Afghanistan while Muhammad took his family back to Yemen and began working with engineering contractors.

al-Zawahiri's Yemeni contractor work saw him frequently travel to the United Arab Emirates, but following his in absentia conviction in the Returnees from Albania trial, he was arrested in March or April 1999 and renditioned to Cairo. Here he was accused of conspiring with Khaled Abdul Samee.

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