Egyptian ex-army officer, Saif al-Adel, a founding member of al-Qaeda, is poised to take over after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Afghanistan
![Egyptian ex-army officer, Saif al-Adel, a founding member of al-Qaeda, is poised to take over after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Afghanistan Egyptian ex-army officer, Saif al-Adel, a founding member of al-Qaeda, is poised to take over after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Afghanistan](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F643fcae7-a7fe-4a51-abea-ee14bd5299b2_797x682.png)
The heir apparent to the al-Qaeda throne after tonight's confirmed death of Ayman al-Zawahiri is a canny, military-trained operative with experience killing British and American soldiers.
Egyptian ex-army officer Saif al-Adel was a founding member of al-Qaeda, having joined pre-cursor terrorist group Maktab al-Khidamat in the late-1980s.
There he met futu…
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