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March 11, 2013

LA Times: Al Qaeda chief's kin, other Salafis push for a puritanical Egypt

by Jeffrey Fleishman
The Los Angeles Times

The brother of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri is an unflinching man with a graying beard whose aim, as a Salafi, is to impose Islamic law on the divided country that has emerged since the overthrow of secular autocrat Hosni Mubarak two years ago.

Seated at a rooftop cafe as dusk draped the Nile, traffic screeching and lights flickering in the ancient city below, he wagged a finger in the air and spoke of an "epic battle" to scour Egypt of corruption and immorality.

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