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...government, officials were worrying about a second wave of attacks. CIA Director George Tenet was briefing Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in the White House Situation Room on the agency's latest concern: intelligence reports suggesting that Osama bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had met with a radical Pakistani nuclear scientist around a campfire in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Absorbing the possibility that al-Qaeda was trying to acquire a nuclear weapon, Cheney remarked that America had to deal with a new type of threat - what he called a "low-probability, high-impact...
...communication from a designee of Osama bin Laden. The al-Qaeda chief had not used a cell phone or satellite phone since 1998. He was very careful. A ring of deputies, below the level of an Ayman al-Zawahiri or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, carried messages for him. The United States had determined who some of them were. They made calls, or sent e-mails, on bin Laden's behalf. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...time he died, al-Zarqawi had not only rewritten the history of the insurgency in Iraq but also bequeathed to the world a deadly new type of terrorist. While Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri issued impotent threats from their hideouts, al-Zarqawi got his hands bloody in Iraq, turning it into the holy war's primary battlefield. He became the jihad's eminent fighter-superstar, embracing and embellishing his infamy with brazen declarations and brutal atrocities--he personally decapitated American Nicholas Berg on videotape, sent scores of suicide bombers to their doom, killed fellow Muslims and attacked their...
...word letter in Arabic dated July 9, 2005, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al- Qaeda's No. 2, tells al-Zarqawi that Iraq is ripe to provide popular support to Islamic militants. He also adivses al-Zarqawi to stop beheading hostages because it was unpopular with the Muslims. U.S. intelligence says that this provides a look into al-Qaeda strategy in Iraq...
...similar exchange had occurred in March when al-Qaeda's Number 2, Ayman Zawahiri, released his own tape criticizing Hamas's decision to enter politics and warning it never to make peace with Israel. That time, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal responded that Hamas had its own vision and always acted in the Palestinian national interest - it didn't need al Qaeda's advice. Zawahiri had also criticized the dominant Islamist group of his home country - the Muslim Brotherhood - for its participation in Egypt's recent elections...