Ayman al-Zawahiri was reportedly killed in Afghanistan by a U.S. drone strike over the weekend. Under his stewardship, Al Qaeda grew from 400 or so men on 9/11 to perhaps 40,000 today in the terror group and its affiliates.
.” But since bin Laden was killed by American special forces in 2011, Zawahiri has been Al Qaeda’s leader. Zawahiri and bin Laden were very different men, not friends but allies, using each other for the skills and resources they could each provide. Al Qaeda would not have survived without the dynamic they created together.
Zawahiri, reportedly killed in Afghanistan by a U.S. drone strike over the weekend, was a doctor—a highly-educated professional who chose to devote himself to violent revolution. He formed his first cell, to overthrow the Egyptian government, when he was fifteen years old. In Al Qaeda, he provided the direction, and bin Laden supplied the money.
And yet, after bin Laden’s death, Zawahiri held the organization together. Under his stewardship, the terror group grew from four hundred or so men on 9/11 to perhaps forty thousand today in Al Qaeda proper and its affiliates, which range from Morocco to India. Although Al Qaeda never had another attack comparable to 9/11, its intentions haven’t changed, its membership has grown, and, with the
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