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Bin Laden was the facial skin of al-Qaida, but Ayman al-Zawahiri was its hate-filled heart
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One of the last times al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was on center stage was roughly 40 years back, when the international media captured his rants from a cage at the relative again of an Egyptian courtroom.
The cameras captured him shouting about the torture he and other prisoners experienced at the hands of Egyptian jailers. He started the group chanting: "We could Muslims. We are Muslims."
Zawahiri's prison time in Egypt not only set him up against the regime there, but marked the start of his lifelong hatred of the U also.S.
When he eventually joined forces with Osama bin Laden, he passed that enmity along, but it ended for al-Zawahiri on Sunday local amount of time in Afghanistan after an unmanned U.S drone fired two hellfire missiles at a safe house in Kabul, killing him.
President Biden noted Monday that al-Zawahiri was Osama bin Laden's deputy during 9/11 and that he was "deeply involved in the planning."
"For decades he was the mastermind behind attacks against Americans," Biden added, noting the 2000 USS Cole attack and the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Biden also detailed al-Zawahiri's role leading al-Qaida since bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in 2011, including contacting followers in recent weeks to attack the U.S. and allies.
Bruce Hoffman, director of the guts for Security and Serenity Studies at Georgetown School, said in 2011 that while al-Zawahiri had a reputation to be prickly and dogmatic, he might emerge as an even better leader than bin Laden.
"Unlike bin Laden, he had the street cred at having been a dyed-in-the-wool terrorist from the right time he was a teenager," Hoffman said. "OK, he's much less telegenic as bin Laden. He lacks bin Laden's charisma. He does not have bin Laden's mellifluous voice, but he still is an extremely powerful number within the motion."
Bin Laden had talked about setting up a base for a broader Islamist movement as though it were a mantra. He wanted a business that didn't need him to survive. And al-Zawahiri has kept it moving in the decade since bin Laden's death.
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The cameras captured him shouting about the torture he and other prisoners experienced at the hands of Egyptian jailers. He started the group chanting: "We could Muslims. We are Muslims."
Zawahiri's prison time in Egypt not only set him up against the regime there, but marked the start of his lifelong hatred of the U also.S.
When he eventually joined forces with Osama bin Laden, he passed that enmity along, but it ended for al-Zawahiri on Sunday local amount of time in Afghanistan after an unmanned U.S drone fired two hellfire missiles at a safe house in Kabul, killing him.
President Biden noted Monday that al-Zawahiri was Osama bin Laden's deputy during 9/11 and that he was "deeply involved in the planning."
"For decades he was the mastermind behind attacks against Americans," Biden added, noting the 2000 USS Cole attack and the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Biden also detailed al-Zawahiri's role leading al-Qaida since bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in 2011, including contacting followers in recent weeks to attack the U.S. and allies.
Bruce Hoffman, director of the guts for Security and Serenity Studies at Georgetown School, said in 2011 that while al-Zawahiri had a reputation to be prickly and dogmatic, he might emerge as an even better leader than bin Laden.
"Unlike bin Laden, he had the street cred at having been a dyed-in-the-wool terrorist from the right time he was a teenager," Hoffman said. "OK, he's much less telegenic as bin Laden. He lacks bin Laden's charisma. He does not have bin Laden's mellifluous voice, but he still is an extremely powerful number within the motion."
Bin Laden had talked about setting up a base for a broader Islamist movement as though it were a mantra. He wanted a business that didn't need him to survive. And al-Zawahiri has kept it moving in the decade since bin Laden's death.
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