According to a report first published by the Arabic-language website Misr al-Gidida, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi recently took a secret meeting with Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri in Islamabad, Pakistan. During their face to face, Morsi allegedly promised that he and operatives from the Muslim Brotherhood would smuggle Zawahiri home to Egypt if he promises to maintain a low profile going forward. After all, Morsi wouldn't want the fact that he was harboring America's number one most-wanted enemy to impact all that financial aid the U.S. sends his country.
“the meeting lasted 45 minutes, during which Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi promised to make preparations for Ayman Zawahiri to return soon to Egypt, indicating that some Muslim Brotherhood members would handle the operation, by first smuggling the al-Qaeda leader to a Gulf nation, likely Qatar, and then easily transferring him to Egypt—on condition that Zawahiri disappear lest he embarrass Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood with its American ally, whose security and intelligence agencies consider Zawahiri most wanted.”
The report goes on to claim that the plan will eventually see Zawahiri disappear into the Sinai region which, since the ouster of Mubarak, has become a mostly-lawless no man's land. Terrorism experts have already acknowledged that Al Qaeda has a foothold there, under the leadership of none other than Zawahiri's brother, Muhammad.
Muhammad Zawahiri was a Jihadi imprisoned in 1999 with a number of other terrorist who sought to overthrow the Egyptian government to replace it with an Islamic state. He was released in 2012 after being retried - and acquitted - by an Egyptian military court.
Multiple Egyptian parliament members have argued vociferously for Ayman Zawahiri's return, among them Aboud al-Zomor, who considers the terrorist a "hero." Al-Zomor was an Islamist jihadi imprisoned for 30 years due to his role in the assassination of Anwar Sadat. He was pardoned in 2012 by, you guessed it, Morsi.
So far, there is no external confirmation of the report, though a host of newspapers throughout the region are reporting it as fact.
If it turns out to be true, not only should the United States immediately end its aid-to-Egypt lunacy, it should end all aid to any nation under Brotherhood control, or even boasting a large Brotherhood presence. If there is ever going to be a "last straw" in our insane, self-destructive, decision to fund those who are actively working against us, this should be it.
