Ayman al-Zawahiri () (born June 19, 1951) is a large member of the al-Qaeda group and erstwhile a head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad paramilitary organization. Al-Zawahiri occurs as medico by trade. He speaks Arabic, French, and a bit of English.

He has utilized Abu Muhammad (Abu Mohammed), Abu Fatima, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abu Abdallah, Abu al-Mu'iz, A Doctor, The Teacher, Nur, Ustaz, Abu Mohammed Nur al-Deen, Abdel Muaz (Abdel Moez, Abdel Muez), & more list when aliases.

Within 1998 he formally merged Egyptian Islamic Jihad into al-Qaeda. Based on datthe from reports by the previous al-Qaida member, he has worked in the al-Qaida organization since its origin & was a senior member of the class action's shura council. He is typically described as a "lieutenant" to the head of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. These are besides assumed that al-Zawahiri serves when bin Laden's doctor (bin Laden reportedly suffers from either the kidney disorder, even requiring dialysis)[http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/terrorists/teralzawahiri.htm].

History

Ayman al-Zawahiri was natural to the large middle class personal within Maadi, Egypt, a suburbia of Cairo, and was reportedly the studious youth. His father was the pharmacologist. Yet, cases pushed him inside a extra radical counsel (even the Six Day War in 1967). By 14 he got joined a Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin), an Islamist group & became the student and follower of Sayyid Qutb. Al-Zawahiri exposed behavior, psychology and pharmacology as part of his medical degree at Cairo University. By 1979 he had moved in to the very much extra radical Islamic Jihad, in which he at length became one of its leading organizers & recruiters. He was one of 100s arrested as a result a assassination of Anwar Sadat, but a Egyptian government was unable to prove any connection between al-Zawahiri & a crime & he was freed fallowing serving pokey period for illegal arms possession.

In the Eighties he journeyed to Afghanistan to participate in the mujahideen resistance against the Soviet Union's occupation. There he met Osama bin Laden, who was heading the base for mujahedeen known as Maktab al-Khadamat (MAK); both of a two worked under the tutelage of the Palestinian Abdullah Yusuf Azzam; later whenever a MAK fractured al-Zawahiri joined baround Laden in organizing a al-Qaeda class action.

Inside 1990 al-Zawahiri returned to Egypt, inside which he continued to click Islamic Jihad inside additional radical directions using noesis & tactics learned in Afghanistan.

Around 1996, he wwhen considered a virtually all believable threat & a extremely deadly terrorist world health organization can strike against a America warning issued at a period specified suicide bombing as the probably form of attack. Around late 1996 he was detained in Russia for six months per FSB after he apparently tried to recruit jihadists in Chechnya. Based on data from a FSB spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko, "He had four passports, in four different names and nationalities. We checked him out in every country, but they could not confirm him. We could not keep him forever, so we took him to the Azerbaijani border and let him go." Within 1997 he was held responsible for even the slaughter of 58 (or 67) foreign holidaymaker in the Egyptian town of Luxor, for which he was sentenced to death inside absentia within 1999 (understand following).

In February 23, 1998, he issued the joint fatwa with Osama bin Laden under the title "World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders", an significant step within broadening their conflicts to the spherical shell.

Withinside 1999 al-Zawahiri was sentenced to dying in absentia by an Egyptian military judicature for his role in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad insurgency, including the mass murder of sixty-2 civilian holidaymaker withinside Luxor in 1997.

Based on data from Vincent Cannistraro, previous top CIA counterterrorist official, "Zawahiri is the guy-he's the operational commander...number one, on the right hand side of Osama."

In September 25, 2001, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Dr. al-Zawahiri within response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon.

Ensuing the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, al-Zawahiri's whereabouts are unclear. It seems probably he stays by owning bin Laden in the border vicinity of Afghanistan & Pakistan.

Video messages

Early September of 2003 the cd showing al-Zawahiri & bin Laden walking together, besides as an audiotape, was discharged to the al-Jazeera network. Another cd was freed at September 9, 2004, in which he announced supplementary assaults. On August Four, 2005, he issued the televised statement blaming Tony Blair and his government's foreign policy for the July 2005 London bombings. On September One, 2005 al-Jazeerthe broadcasted a videomessage from either Mohammed Sidique Khan, one of bombers of the London metro. His message was followed by a second message from either al-Zawahiri, blaming once again Blair for the bombings.

Reward offered by the US

The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to US$25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Ayman al-Zawahiri. He is wanted for his alleged role in the August 7, 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies inside Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.