This 5:00 video clip from "Looking for Answers" is from that part of the program dealing with the rise of militant Islam in Egypt. And it features Ayman al-Zawahiri, the young medical student who helped establish the radical Egyptian Islamic Jihad in the 1970s; he is now one of Osama bin Laden's top aides and on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list for the September 11th attacks.
This video excerpt shows al-Zawahiri in the early 1980s ferociously condemning torture and other human rights violations by the Egyptian government - from the jail cell he is sharing with dozens of other Egyptian militants.
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