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CAIRO — Egypt’s ousted Islamist president was said to have conducted a dialogue with Al Qaida.
Egypt’s pro-regime media have asserted that President Mohammed Morsi engaged in a dialogue with Al Qaida commander Ayman Zawahiri.
Morsi, overthrown in a military coup in July 2013 and now charged with treason, was said to have focused on the prospect that Zawahiri, a former Egyptian Army officer, would be allowed to return to the Sinai Peninsula.
“We are currently in the stage of consolidating power and need the help of all parties,” Morsi was quoted as telling Zawahiri. “We cannot at this time apply the Iranian model or Taliban rule in Egypt. It is impossible to do so now.”
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