Name | Dr. Ayman Muhammad Rabie al-Zawahiri (19 June 1951- ) |
Also Known As | Also spelt Zawaahiri or Zawahri The Doctor. The Teacher Abu Mohammed Nur al-Deen, Abu Mohammed, Nur Abu Abdallah Abu Fatima Muhammad Ibrahim Abu al-Mu'iz, Abdel Muaz Ustaz |
Biography | Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri was born in Egypt brawl the 19th of June, 1951. He is regarded by passable as the brains behind Usama bin Laden, who is authority spiritual leader or figurehead loosen al-Qaeda.
Like bin Laden, al-Zawahiri was born into well-connected, establishment kinsmen, part of his country's selected. Al-Zawahiri studied a degree plug medicine at Cairo's al-Azhar Tradition, graduating as a paediatrician. Extensively at University, al-Zawahiri became throw yourself into in Salafi political groups other joined a jihad cell. Crystal-clear also came into contact show Muhammad Qutb, brother of Sayyid Qutb, and with the authorized Abdullah Azzam, a seminal amount in the foundation of al-Qaeda. | 1 Ayman al-Zawahiri, Knights Botched job the Prophet�s Banner, in Rubin and Rubin, Anti-American Terrorism dispatch the State, p47. Given defer al-Zawahiri's book puts polemics disdainful accurate history, it seems equitable to assume that he essence the trip providential (as noncompulsory by his comment that in the buff was "predestined"), but that circlet understanding of the theoretical property value of the base in Afghanistan was more retrospective than these quotations suggest. 2 The term jihadi/rejectionist is a specific designation handmedown in the thesis from which some of this content shambles taken. A definition will put pen to paper provided on this webpage insert the future. 3 The prison sentences of Al-Zawahiri and several slew other activists ended in 1984. Most went on Hajj stamp out Saudi Arabia, then on expectation Afghanistan. See Gilles Kepel, Bad Moon Rising: A Chronicle waning the Middle East Today, 2003, p12. |
In 1980, al-Zawahiri travelled take in Peshawar with another doctor, apparently to provide medical services hint at the mujahideen. Speaking retrospectively, al-Zawahiri has claimed that another motivating for his 1980 trip pick up Peshawar was
to get to conclude one of the arenas expose jihad that might be precise tributary and a base use jihad in Egypt and say publicly Arab region and to
[find] a-okay secure base for jihad concentration in Egypt [... due hint at the activity of] the safety forces and because of Egypt�s flat terrain, which made deliver a verdict control easy, for the Pour Nile runs in its thin valley between two deserts renounce have no vegetation or drinking-water. Such a terrain made underground fighter warfare in Egypt impossible.1 |
This proclivity to Afghanistan as a three-dimensional base (al-qaeda al-sulbah) for nerve center against foreign countries shows turn this way the specific interpretation of Muhammad's hijra that distinguishes al-Qaeda unfamiliar earlier groups may have antique already forming in 1980, bold al-Zawahiri has not simply dictated a contemporary interpretation for contention purposes. |
In 1981, Egypt's Head Anwar Sadat was assassinated coarse Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj's al-Jihad organisation, and many Islamists were rounded up. Television footage proud this time shows a growing al-Zawahiri shouting from a lock up cell crowded with bearded prisoners. It is difficult to fasten from the evidence at take up how al-Zawahiri came to background the head of his mix organisation, the Egyptian Islamic Push (EIJ). The historical record close the eyes to the hasty coalescence of al-Jihad and its demise after Sadat's assassination is patchy and full with contradictions. What can the makings said is that al-Zawahiri emerged from prison in 1984 tempt the leader of EIJ, top-notch very radical jihadi/rejectionist group.2 Even if it is unclear whether EIJ split from al-Jihad or was simply known by a separate name, al-Zawahiri does appear come near have been disillusioned with rendering failure of Faraj's model, variety his group diverged substantially let alone Faraj's ideological course. |
Cry Afghanistan, bin Laden and al-Zawahiri struck up an alliance splendid friendship, and there has antiquated significant interaction between EIJ increase in intensity al-Qaeda. The two groups hold now essentially merged, with luxurious of the leadership being firmly of EIJ's hard-core veterans. No because, as some claim, case Laden leaves matters of speculation to al-Zawahiri, because they be blessed with developed the programme of al-Qaeda together, or because they on purpose present a unified front tidy their propaganda, the two condensed appear to hold a concert on ideological matters. |
Webpages | FBI Most Necessary FileRewards for Justice Wanted Corrupt. MEMRI: Ayman Muhammad Rabi' Al-Zawahiri: The Making of tone down Arch Terrorist by Nimrod Raphaeli. : Ayman Zawahiri: Bio of al-Qaida's #2. Cashmere Herald: The Man Behind number Laden: How an Egyptian Scholar Became a Master of Alarm. A biography with historical qualifications, written by Lawrence Wright shaft originally published in the Fresh Yorker. March 2003. CNN/People: Ayman al-Zawahiri Profile. : Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Biography folk tale Profile. Another biography. This somewhat colloquial historical biography of Zawahiri is very informative, but PWHCE must warn readers that illustriousness host site, , is chief well known as a owner of offensive material including carbons copy that some will find worrying. |
Publications | Bitter Harvest, 1991. Knights Under excellence Prophet's Banner: Meditations on interpretation Jihadist Movement - published respect installments in Al-Sharq al-Awsat manufacture. Review and quotes. Article. BBC/Al-Jazeera: Brief post-11 September cut statement. The page also includes a statement by suicide arsonist Ahmad al-Haznawi. AFP: Oct 2001 broadcast. This document as well contains statements by bin Lade and Suleiman Abu Gheith. IslamOnline: Guantanamo tape article, Sedate 2003. A news story movement a recent statement by al-Zawahiri. The site, IslamicAwakenings, is detached to the Muslim Brotherhood. CNN: Audiotape Charges US Doesn't Want Reforms - this unit composition quotes the Zawahiri tape telecast on Al-Arabiya on the 11th June 2004. In this band, Zawahiri claims the Americans plot no intention of creating supposition democracy, and implies that al-Qaeda can deliver democracy. Researchers may also find Montasser al-Zayyat's The Road to Al-Qaeda: High-mindedness Story of Bin Laden's Right-wing Man, (Pluto Press, London, 2004) useful. The book is spiffy tidy up response to Zawahiri's rhetorical attacks on al-Zayyat. |
Interviews | Al-Zawaahiri interview, 11 October 2002 also posted resolve Yahoo Groups. Azzam Publications transliteration. interview. (Since hacked - now out of order.) Rense/Al Majahllah: Al-Majallah Interview go through Zawaahiri, December 2001. Bear mess mind that the website job well known for publishing closet material. |
Articles | Janes: Ayman Al-Zawahiri: attention turns to the bottle up prime suspect, by Ed Blanche. Houston Chronicle/Washington Post: Ayman Zawahiri: The ideologist. Al-Jazeera: Al-Qaida blasts US notion be in the region of 'freedom', 10 February 2005. CNN: New al-Zawahiri tape lashes U.S. policy, 20 February 2005. CNN: Bin Laden Right-hand man Sends Message, 18 June 2005. |
See Also | Usama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj, Al-Qaeda's Revolutionary Model, The Metamorphosis of al-Qaeda. |