A new military leader for Al-Qaida organization

The London- based al-Sharq al-Awsat said that the lawyer of the extremist groups in Egypt Muntasir al-Zayat disclosed in a telephone call to the paper that " Seif al-Adel " ( sword of Justice) the new military leader for al-Qaida is Muhammad Ibrahim al-Makkawi, the former officer in the Egyptian army, al-Saeqa group of the special forces and he was retired at the grade of a " colonel." In its Sunday's issue that paper added that " Seif al-Adel" is a leading figure and he has a very strong self - confidence. He used to be considered a deputy for the leader of al-Qaida organization Ayman al-Zawahiri and one of the closet to him before the two men had split due to differences in their view points.