Who was Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda leader and Osama bin Laden successor
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Americans knew him as al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader, the bespectacled, bushy-bearded deputy to Osama bin Laden. But in reality, it was Ayman al-Zawahiri’s brains and blood-drenched hands that guided the world’s most notorious terrorist movement.
Zawahiri, 71, was killed in a CIA drone strike in Kabul over the weekend, according to officials familiar with the m…
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