Terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda launched a 35-minute video narrated by its chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, reported to have been killed on July 31, 2022 in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan’s Kabul.
The newest recording is undated and the transcript didn’t level in direction of a timeframe for when it may have been made.
Ayman al-Zawahiri had been in hiding for years, and the operation to find and kill him was the results of “cautious, affected person and protracted” work by the counterterrorism and intelligence group, a senior U.S. administration official was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Al-Qaeda has not named a successor. However Saif al-Adel, a mysterious, low-key former Egyptian particular forces officer who’s a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda, is extensively perceived as the highest contender.
The US is providing a reward of as much as $10 million for data resulting in Saif al-Adel’s arrest.
Who was Ayman al-Zawahiri?
Egypt-born Ayman al-Zawahiri was the second emir of al-Qaeda, ranging from June 2011, a month after its founder Osama bin Laden was killed by a US particular operations unit in Pakistan’s Abbotabad. A surgeon by qualification, throughout Soviet-Afghan battle, Ayman al-Zawahiri together with Osama bin Laden co-founded Maktab-al-Khidmat (Afghan Providers Bureau) in 1984 to recruit jihadists to struggle in opposition to Soviets in Afghanistan. In 1988, the al-Zawahiri, as probably the most trusted lieutenants of Osama bin Laden, emerged as Al-Qaeda’s founding member.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was one of many lots of arrested for plotting former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s assassination. The 1995 assault on Egyptian embassy in Islamabad was carried out by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad with al-Zawahiri at high.
He was positioned below worldwide sanctions in 1999 by the United Nations’ Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee.
Within the aftermath of assault on World Commerce Centre in September 2001, al-Zawahiri appeared on the listing of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s high 22 Most Needed Terrorists, which was launched to the general public by U.S. President George W. Bush.
Ayman al-Zawahiri is survived by his third spouse Umaima Hassan and 7 youngsters.
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