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Suspected Crimes
His group Egyptian Islamic Jihad was believed to have been behind the assassination of President Anwar Sadat during a Cairo military parade in 1981. It was blamed in several assassination attempts on other senior Egyptian politicians in the 1990s, and claimed responsibility for the 1996 bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad. Al-Zawahri was sentenced to death in absentia in the latter cases.
He was indicted in the United States for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, simultaneous attacks that killed 231 people and wounded more than 5,000. The U.S. government has a $25 million reward on his head.
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