The many lives of Ayman al-Zawahiri - Pearls and Irritations
The chief ideologue and mastermind behind the audacious September 11, 2001 attacks, supposedly killed in a drone strike in Kabul.
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The chief ideologue and mastermind behind the audacious September 11, 2001 attacks, supposedly killed in a drone strike in Kabul.
Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead – or so we are told. Al-Qaida’s chief and successor to the slain Osama bin Laden, he was deemed the chief ideologue and mastermind behind the audacious September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. On July 31, he was supposedly killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, while
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