Why Killing Al-Zawahiri Was as Significant As Killing Osama Bin Laden
Al-Zawahiri Was Bin Laden’s Second in Command, His Brain, His Strategic Thinker, His Ideological Guide, His Doctor, the Chief Operating Officer of Al Qaeda
After the 9/11 attacks, it took about 10 years for the United States government to get Osama Bin Laden. They got him in May 2011. Now, as of Saturday, July 30th 2022, we know it took another 11 years after that, to get Bin Laden’s brain; to get the man who was Bin Laden’s number two in Al Qaeda at the time of 9/11, the man who took over as Al Qaeda’s leader after Bin Laden was killed by U S Navy seals.
The string of attacks and murders attributed to Ayman Al-Zawahiri is stomach churning. He was the ideological mastermind behind the turn of Al Qaeda and groups like that towards indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere, including Muslims; all in the name of Islamic piety.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri was trained as a doctor; he was a trained surgeon. He was from a respected family in Egypt, born and raised in Cairo. By the time he was 15 years old, he was a committed radical who wanted to try to impose Islamic theocracy by force. He formed his first terrorist cell with the aim of overthrowing the government of Egypt when he…
