Notwithstanding the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's promise not to seek the presidency, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, 60, member of the MB's Shura Council, has announced he would run for president in Egypt's coming election albeit as an "independent," although no one doubts whom he represents. The US administration planned Osama bin Laden's death as a lever for al Qaeda's destruction. DEBKA-Net-Weekly's next issue out next Friday tabs the ten master-terrorists still at large, including one who holds the key to a dirty bomb attack, and capable of masterminding revenge attacks. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly,click here The al Qaeda leader never wavered from his basic conception that only a mega-attack on an American city devastating enough to rock the US economy would make Washington withdraw its forces from the Middle East. This is confirmed in the files taken from the Abbottabad villa after he was killed on May 2. Otherwise the materials examined so far contribute no hard intelligence to the war on al Qaeda or the prevention of another mega-attack in the US.
April 29, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 490 revealed that Fotouh was MB's presidential candidate, the first publication to do so. Recently discovered by the American media, he is depicted as a progressive, moderate Muslim figure. 
This issue will also assess the prospects of Syrian President Assad's victory against his opposition.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Friday, 13 May 2011
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 13, 2011, 7:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Muslim Brotherhood's Abdel Moneim Fotouh runs for Egyptian president
Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, al Qaeda's dirty bomb ace
Bin Laden stayed obsessed with mega-attacks in US
May 12, 2011, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
Osama bin Laden looked back at his last video
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