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friends to like this. This vision is on its way to being
fulfilled. With Islamist political victories, culminating with a
Muslim Brotherhood president, Muhammad Morsi, Egypt is taking
the first major steps to becoming the sort of state Zawahiri
wished to see. He regularly congratulates Egypt's Islamists—most
recently the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo—urging them to
continue Islamizing the Middle East's most strategic nation. He
sent a lengthy communiqué during the Egyptian revolution in
February 2011, for example, titled "Messages of Hope and Glad
Tidings to our People in Egypt." In it, he reiterated themes
widely popularized by al-Qaeda, i