Cairo:
A founding member of Egypt's Islamic Jihad and friend of Al Qaeda's new chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri told AFP Tuesday that Osama bin Laden's death will not affect the organisation and pleaded against revenge attacks.
Aboud al-Zumur, who was in jail with Zawahiri after the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981, said bin Laden was a "martyr" whose death at the hands of US special forces in Pakistan "will solve nothing."
"Al Qaeda is not a person, it is an institution," said Zumur, who was freed from prison after a popular revolt ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.
"Solving the problem entails withdrawing from occupied territories and a balance in US policy towards Palestine."