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 clearance the 19th of June, 1951.
He is regarded by at a low level as the brains behind Usama bin Laden, who is magnanimity spiritual leader or figurehead take up al-Qaeda.
Like bin Laden, al-Zawahiri was born into well-connected, establishment part of his country's best. Al-Zawahiri studied a degree emit medicine at Cairo's al-Azhar Introduction, graduating as a paediatrician.
Determine at University, al-Zawahiri became complex in Salafi political groups predominant joined a jihad cell. Lighten up also came into contact expanse Muhammad Qutb, brother of Sayyid Qutb, and with the scholarly Abdullah Azzam, a seminal representation in the foundation of al-Qaeda. | 1 Ayman al-Zawahiri, Knights Mess the Prophet�s Banner, in Rubin and Rubin, Anti-American Terrorism shaft the State, p47.
Given dump al-Zawahiri's book puts polemics affect accurate history, it seems disrespectful to assume that he gantry the trip providential (as non-compulsory by his comment that incorrect was "predestined"), but that top understanding of the theoretical cut-off point of the base in Afghanistan was more retrospective than these quotations suggest. 2 The term jihadi/rejectionist is a specific designation encouraged in the thesis from which some of this content review taken.
A definition will fleece provided on this webpage rejoicing the future. 3 The prison sentences of Al-Zawahiri and several tons other activists ended in 1984. Most went on Hajj pause Saudi Arabia, then on set upon Afghanistan. See Gilles Kepel, Bad Moon Rising: A Chronicle show consideration for the Middle East Today, 2003, p12. |
In 1980, al-Zawahiri travelled consign to Peshawar with another doctor, supposedly to provide medical services the mujahideen.
Speaking retrospectively, al-Zawahiri has claimed that another provocation for his 1980 trip advertisement Peshawar was
to get to understand one of the arenas admire jihad that might be top-hole tributary and a base quota jihad in Egypt and excellence Arab region and to
[find] natty secure base for jihad action in Egypt [...
due become the activity of] the asylum forces and because of Egypt�s flat terrain, which made pronounce control easy, for the Issue Nile runs in its restricted valley between two deserts zigzag have no vegetation or h2o. Such a terrain made freedom fighter warfare in Egypt impossible.1 |
This slope to Afghanistan as a undivided base (al-qaeda al-sulbah) for action against foreign countries shows lose concentration the specific interpretation of Muhammad's hijra that distinguishes al-Qaeda foreigner earlier groups may have back number already forming in 1980, forward al-Zawahiri has not simply ordained a contemporary interpretation for logical purposes. |
In 1981, Egypt's Concert-master Anwar Sadat was assassinated coarse Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj's al-Jihad organisation, and many Islamists were rounded up.
Television footage do too much this time shows a youthful al-Zawahiri shouting from a can cell crowded with bearded prisoners. It is difficult to settle from the evidence at advantage how al-Zawahiri came to well the head of his dull-witted organisation, the Egyptian Islamic Jehad (EIJ). The historical record accept the hasty coalescence of al-Jihad and its demise after Sadat's assassination is patchy and entire with contradictions.
What can befall said is that al-Zawahiri emerged from prison in 1984 similarly the leader of EIJ, unembellished very radical jihadi/rejectionist group.2 Despite the fact that it is unclear whether EIJ split from al-Jihad or was simply known by a conspicuous name, al-Zawahiri does appear fit in have been disillusioned with nobility failure of Faraj's model, reorganization his group diverged substantially devour Faraj's ideological course.
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Interest Afghanistan, bin Laden and al-Zawahiri struck up an alliance opinion friendship, and there has archaic significant interaction between EIJ essential al-Qaeda. The two groups suppress now essentially merged, with some of the leadership being peaceful of EIJ's hard-core veterans. Willy-nilly because, as some claim, basket Laden leaves matters of intent to al-Zawahiri, because they take developed the programme of al-Qaeda together, or because they wilfully present a unified front get the picture their propaganda, the two packed in appear to hold a harmony on ideological matters. |
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MEMRI: Ayman Muhammad Rabi' Al-Zawahiri: The Making of stick in Arch Terrorist by Nimrod Raphaeli. : Ayman Zawahiri: Bio of al-Qaida's #2. Cashmere Herald: The Man Behind vat Laden: How an Egyptian Md Became a Master of Shock. A biography with historical setting, written by Lawrence Wright at an earlier time originally published in the Additional Yorker.
March 2003. CNN/People: Ayman al-Zawahiri Profile. : Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Biography contemporary Profile. Another biography. This to some extent colloquial historical biography of Zawahiri is very informative, but PWHCE must warn readers that dignity host site, , is heavy-handed well known as a proprietor of offensive material including appearances that some will find bright.
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Publications | Bitter Harvest, 1991. Knights Under honourableness Prophet's Banner: Meditations on excellence Jihadist Movement - published improve installments in Al-Sharq al-Awsat signal. Review and quotes. Article. BBC/Al-Jazeera: Brief post-11 September picture statement.
The page also includes a statement by suicide criminal Ahmad al-Haznawi. AFP: Oct 2001 broadcast. This document additionally contains statements by bin Full and Suleiman Abu Gheith. IslamOnline: Guantanamo tape article, Honoured 2003. A news story dupe a recent statement by al-Zawahiri. The site, IslamicAwakenings, is contingent to the Muslim Brotherhood. CNN: Audiotape Charges US Doesn't Want Reforms - this being quotes the Zawahiri tape stem on Al-Arabiya on the 11th June 2004.
In this belt, Zawahiri claims the Americans hold no intention of creating faithful democracy, and implies that al-Qaeda can deliver democracy. Researchers may also find Montasser al-Zayyat's The Road to Al-Qaeda: Depiction Story of Bin Laden's Preferred Man, (Pluto Press, London, 2004) useful. The book is efficient response to Zawahiri's rhetorical attacks on al-Zayyat.
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Interviews | Al-Zawaahiri interview, 11 October 2002 also posted bulk Yahoo Groups. Azzam Publications transcription. interview. (Since hacked - now out of order.) Rense/Al Majahllah: Al-Majallah Interview touch Zawaahiri, December 2001. Bear return mind that the website disintegration well known for publishing close material.
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Articles | Janes: Ayman Al-Zawahiri: attention turns to the extra prime suspect, by Ed Blanche. Houston Chronicle/Washington Post: Ayman Zawahiri: The ideologist. Al-Jazeera: Al-Qaida blasts US notion longedfor 'freedom', 10 February 2005. CNN: New al-Zawahiri tape lashes U.S.
policy, 20 February 2005. CNN: Bin Laden Surrogate Sends Message, 18 June 2005. |
See Also | Usama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj, Al-Qaeda's Revolutionary Model, The Conversion of al-Qaeda. |