Ayman zawahiri dead

  • Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June until his death in July He is best known for being one of the main orchestrators of.
  • The lone victim of the strike was confirmed to be al Qaeda emir Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was living with his family in a safe house approximately.
  • One of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in a drone missile strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 31,

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    Zawahiri's victims: What it feels like to hear he's gone

    Sam Cabral

    BBC News, Washington

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    Americans danced in the streets over the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The killing of his successor has been met with a more muted response - but those robbed of their loved ones by Ayman al-Zawahiri's actions say his death matters too.

    On 11 September , roughly five seconds before American Airlines Flight 11 hit the north tower of New York's World Trade Center, the plane flew directly over Charles G Wolf's apartment building.

    Trained as a pilot, Mr Wolf, 68, knew instantly that a twin-engine plane was flying dangerously low at full throttle through Manhattan - and his worst fears were soon validated.

    The hijacked flight crashed directly into the building where Katherine, his Welsh-born wife of 13 years, worked. She was among 2, people who died that day.

    Mr Wolf - who rushed out onto the street to get a closer look as he fr

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    In , when I profiled Ayman al-Zawahiri for The New Yorker, he was called “the man behind bin Laden.” But since bin Laden was killed bygd American special forces, in , Zawahiri has been Al Qaeda’s leader. Zawahiri and bin Laden were very different men, not friends but allies, using each other for the skills and resources they could each provide. Al Qaeda would not have survived without the dynamic they created together.

    Zawahiri, reportedly killed in Afghanistan by a U.S. drone strike over the weekend, was a doctor—a highly educated professional who chose to devote han själv to violent revolution. He formed his first cell, to overthrow the Egyptian government, when he was fifteen years old. In Al Qaeda, he provided the direction, and bin Laden supplied the money. Zawahiri was always in the background, and many people who studied Al Qaeda thought that bin Laden’s death would bring the curtain down on their creation.

    And yet, after bin Laden’s death, Zawahiri held the organization toge

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