He was the man behind Osama Bin Laden.
Both were different.
They were not real friends, but real allies, united in the same jihad against the United States and "
their lackeys
" in the Middle East.
The elimination of Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, by an American drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, marks the disappearance of a jihadist leader who survived more than four decades of hunting by his many enemies.
An exceptional longevity for a leader of the ultra-radical Sunni movement: from his beginnings in the 1950s in Egypt, until the seizure of power by his Taliban hosts in Afghanistan in 2021.
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Historical figure of jihadism, the leader of al-Qaeda killed in the center of Kabul by an American drone
Ayman al-Zawahiri was born on June 19, 1951 in Maadi, near Cairo, into a bourgeois family.
His father was a famous doctor and his grandfather a great theologian of the mosque of al-Azhar, in the Egyptian capital.
The young Ayman will become a surgeon.
An internal war in Egypt
Like other jihadist leaders, he began by campaigning within the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt…
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