Egypt

Abboud al Zommor, an Egyptian Islamic Jihad commander who was released from prison, said he will form a political party. Zommor was the mastermind behind the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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