Word: zawahiri
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...document doesn't identify the three. But Bush Administration sources tell TIME that U.S. authorities have acquired evidence placing the suspected leader of the hijackings, Mohamed Atta, at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Other evidence suggests that Atta also met with senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top bin Laden lieutenant...
...honored guests that day was bin Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a surgeon and the longstanding head of Egypt's al-Jihad, a radical Islamic group founded in 1974 that is blamed for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the failed 1995 attempt on President Hosni Mubarak. The leading ideologue of al-Qaeda, with an extreme dedication to violence, al-Zawahiri, 50, is "the brain behind bin Laden," says Montasser el-Zayat, an Egyptian lawyer who has represented extremist groups and spent time in prison with al-Zawahiri. "When Osama went to Afghanistan...
Like bin Laden, al-Zawahiri didn't have to endure poverty to fuel his revolutionary fervor. His great-uncle was the first secretary general of the Arab League, and he grew up wealthy. After breaking with his family and fleeing Egypt, he ended up tending to injured freedom fighters on the Afghan-Pakistan border. It was there that he met bin Laden, encouraging him to fight at the front instead of just financing...
Both Atef and al-Zawahiri prefer to keep a low profile. Al-Zawahiri, in particular, has reportedly gone to great lengths to stay in the shadows, and even underwent extensive plastic surgery. He seems to have been successful; in the early '90s, he allegedly traveled in the U.S., raising money, meeting with terrorist cells and scoping out potential targets...
...Qaida's often diffuse structures are designed specifically to avoid leaving behind trails of command responsibility detectable to investigators probing specific attacks. Proving that Atta and others had spent time at Al Qaida camps in Afghanistan and had met with al-Zawahiri would therefore constitute a major breakthrough in the investigation...