Sunday, Jul 29, 2007
International
Top ideologue repudiates violent jihad Revisionist message rattles Al-Qaeda leader http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/29/stories/2007072955681600.htm
Cairo: In a prison cell south of Cairo, a repentant Egyptian terrorist leader is putting the finishing touches to a remarkable recantation that undermines the Muslim theological basis for violent jihad and is set to generate furious controversy among former comrades still fighting with Al-Qaeda.
Sayid Imam al-Sharif (57), was the founder and first emir (commander) of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organisation, whose supporters assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and later teamed up with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the war against the Soviet occupation. http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/29/stories/2007072955681600.htm