Ayman al-Zawahri: An inglorious end to the doctor who dispensed death, By Osmund Agbo

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Al-Zawahri was once described as living “a cat-and-mouse life, serving prison terms in Egypt and Russia and hunted by adversaries.

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Before his death, he was wanted in connection with the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks on US soil, 1998 US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, to mention just a few. He played a leading role in the organisational planning and provision of logistic support to global terrorist networks across the globe, while making recruiting and promotional videos and inspiring wound-be jihadist all over the world.

Ayman al-Zawahri began reading Islamist literature at an early age and one of his biggest influences growing up, was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood called Sayyid Qutb. This was an Islamic thinker who saw the world as divided between believers and infidels. Qutb was regarded as the Father of Salafi jihadism, the religio-political doctrine that underpins the ideological roots of global jihadist organisations such al-Qaeda and later ISIS.

From his base, Al-Zawahri organised several terrorist acts, including an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Egyptian prime minister. The bomb missed its target, but wounded many and caused the death of a 12-year-old schoolgirl. Becoming a diplomatic liability for Sudan, the government expelled the Arab radicals who then returned to Afghanistan as guest of Mullah Muhammad Omar…

As time went on, the Egyptian kid from a very privileged background, who worked hard to become a surgeon, had morphed into a battle-hardened Jihadist. He went from harbouring a visceral hatred of secular rule in Egypt, where earlier on he was among those tried for conspiracy in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat, to mounting a virulent campaign to strike at Western targets, most especially the United States, Al Qaeda’s arch enemy.

On July 25, President Biden, now satisfied with a new plan, authorised the CIA to conduct the air strike when there was a window of opportunity. That opportunity came last Sunday morning when a CIA drone found al-Zawahri on his balcony and fired a Hellfire missile designed to kill a single person, bringing an end to a more than two-decade-long hunt.

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