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Osama Bin Laden's Leadership

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The main leader of Al Qaeda is Ayman al Zawahiri, who was born in 1951 in Cairo. He comes from an Egyptian middle class family. Even though he was trained to be a doctor, during his teens he became extremely involved in Islamist groups. He decided to join the Islamic Jihad in 1973. At this time, the Jihad aimed at overthrowing the government in Egypt. He was accused and imprisoned in 1981 for having something to do with the assasination of Anwar al Sadat, the president of Egypt. He went to Pakistan in 1985 to assist in the fight against Soviet troops fighting in Afghanistan. He decided to join Osama bin Laden in 1998 and became one of the most important spokespersons for al Qaeda’s ideaology during the 2000s. When bin Laden was killed

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