You see, I was looking at the title of the latest chapter I read (technically the second latest) and I saw “The Base.” Now, at the time, I was thinking, “Didn’t Al-Qaeda have multiple bases?” Never in my life would I expect them to name their main base, “The Lion’s Den.” Though I must say, it fits perfectly. Today, I’ll be talking about the contribution of Al-Zawahiri to Al-Qaeda and a little bit about the man himself.
First, I’ll be talking about al-Zawahiri himself. Al-Zawahiri was born on June 19th, 1951 and is currently alive. Currently, he’s essentially the head and brains of the notorious terrorist group, Al-Qaeda. Since 9/11 al-Zawahiri has had a 25 million dollar bounty put on him by the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI). Al-Zawahiri was born into a distinguished family. Al-Zawahiri, as a child, had great respect for his family because of the accomplishments they had. Additionally, during his youth, he was studious and excelled in school. Al-Zawahiri studied medicine at Cairo University. In addition to his extraordinary family, Al-Zawahiri had married at least 4 times during his life. Al-Zawahiri’s turning point was when he became a surgeon and his organization merged with bin Laden’s.
Now, I’ll be talking about al-Zawahiri’s contribution to Al-Qaeda. Al-Zawahiri has probably had the 2nd biggest impact on Al-Qaeda of course slightly behind the man himself, Osama bin laden. Although bin Laden had supported these terrorist organizations with the massive amounts of wealth he had accumulated, al-Zawahiri has always been the right hand man to bin laden. As a trained physician and surgeon, al-Zawahiri was the doctor to bin Laden when he had fallen ill many times over the long period of him being a part of Al-Qaeda. Not only that, as we mentioned earlier, al-Zawahiri’s intelligence was also on another level compared to the average person so he was at least half of the brains behind Al-Qaeda. Without al-Zawahiri, bin Laden would have probably been caught by the FBI a millenia ago.
So as you can, there’s a reason why al-Zawahiri is one of the current major targets of the FBI. Who knows when the next he and Al-Qaeda are going to attack. Only time will tell but for the time being, we need to make sure we inspect him and the situation further in order to prevent the same internal conflict that occurred 10 years ago.