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OTHER PROMINNERS OF AL-QAEDA

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OTHER PROMINENT LEADERS OF AL-QAEDA

Ayman al-Zawahiri:
Ayman al-zawahiri was an ophthalmologist (eye surgeon) and also one of the founders of Egyptian militant group Islamic Jihad. After the death of Osama Bin Laden, he was made the leader of al-Qaeda on 16 June 2011.Under his leadership al-Qaeda continued its jihad against crusader America and its servant Israel and whoever supported them. According to some authentic resources Zawahiri was also suspected to be the operational brain behind the 11 September 2001 attacks in US.As he is one of the group’s chief ideologue and missionary. On the list of 22 most wanted terrorists, issued by the government of US in 2011, Zawahiri was second only to Bin Laden and continues to have a $25m bounty on his head. He went underground after the US-led attack to overthrow the Taliban. One of his wives and two children also got killed in an US air strike in 2011. Security analysts believe him to be hidden somewhere around Afghan-Pakistan border region. US again launched an air strike in Jan 2006 at Damadola, a Pakistani village near the Afghan-Pakistan border, where they suspected zawahiri to be hiding and killed eighteen villagers including four children. US sources suggested …show more content…

He is either Moroccan or Egyptian. According to the reports submitted by Pakistani officials in early 2006 he was thought to be dead in an US air strike near the Afghan border but later the Pakistani officials backed off from their statement and said that no al-Qaeda leaders died in the attack. He came to be described as al-Qaeda’s military commander in July 2008 and previously he had been assumed to hold overall command after al-Iraqi’s capture in 2006. He oversees al-Qaeda’s internal operations in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. He is also assumed to be operating with a fake identity and one of his fictitious names is believed to be Khalid

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