Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was bin Laden’s right hand and what did he do?
US President Joe Biden announced on Monday evening that Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in an airstrike in Kabul.
Al-Zawahiri was present at his home during the attack on July 31, but his death was met with a negative reaction from the Taliban and they condemned this American air operation.
In his speech, while announcing the news of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death, Biden claimed that the attack did not harm Al-Zawahiri’s family and that no civilian was killed.
American sources announced that in 2022, the American intelligence services had identified the location of the Al-Qaeda leader’s residence and finally, after some time, carried out the operation of his physical removal.
Who was Ayman al-Zawahiri and what did he do?
Ayman Muhammad Rabi al-Zawahiri was born on June 19, 1951 in the Al-Giza area in the capital of Egypt, Cairo. His family was from the middle class, among whom there were many doctors and religious scholars. Ayman Zawahiri’s grandfather was the imam of Al-Azhar Islamic University and his father was a pharmacist and professor at Cairo University.
He joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood at a young age and was arrested for the first time at the age of 15 on charges of belonging to this movement.
Later, he graduated from Ain al-Shams medical school in Egypt in the field of medicine and surgery and started his medical activities in Egypt.
Al-Zawahiri founded the Islamic Jihad group in Egypt in 1973 with his associates. Following the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the former president of Egypt by the followers of this group in 1981, Ayman Zawahiri was imprisoned along with hundreds of others.
In 1985, he traveled to Afghanistan from the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to fight among the Afghan jihadist groups.
