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The al-Qaida chief’s elimination is likely to cause greater disarray within the group than did Osama bin Laden’s death since it is far less clear who his successor will be.
The doors of jihad opened for Ayman al-Zawahri as a young doctor in a Cairo clinic. That’s when a visitor arrived with a tempting offer: a chance to treat Islamic fighters battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan. With that offer in 1980, al-Zawahri embarked on a life that over three decades took him to the top of the most feared terrorist group in the world, al-Qaida, after the death of Osama bin Laden. At that point, he was already an experienced militant who had sought the overthrow of Egypt’s “infidel” regime since the age of 15. Al-Zawahri was killed over the weekend by a U.S. drone ...
While bin Laden came from a privileged background in a prominent Saudi family, al-Zawahiri had the experience of an underground revolutionary.
Al-Zawahri's path: From Cairo clinic to top of Al-Qaida
As Arabs turn towards Israel and survival, the West continues in the opposite direction.