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Two days ago, accounts belonging to elements of al-Qaeda, including “Guardians of Religion”, one of the branches of Al-Qaeda in Syria, announced the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda.
The accounts said, through posts posted on social media platforms, that the leader of the terrorist organization had died, adding that the “Guardians of Religion” faction had been cut off from communications between him and Al-Zawahiri for weeks. , and that he was likely to die, adding that Al-Zawahiri’s last instructions were to avoid a direct military confrontation with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria.
He indicated that the leader, who had succeeded bin Laden since 2011, had died of liver cancer.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Who is Ayman al-Zawahiri?
His full name is Ayman Muhammad Rabi` Mustafa Abdul Karim Al-Zawahiri, from a large family who settled in the village of Kafr El-Sheikh Al-Zawahiri, in the city of Hehya in the Sharkia governorate in northern Egypt. Her father is Dr. Muhammad Rabi` Al-Zawahiri, Professor of Pharmacology, Ain College of Medicine, Ain. He is Muhammad Muhammad Rabih al-Zawahiri, nicknamed Abu Ayman al-Masry, and he is one of the leaders of the Jihad and Al-Qaeda organization, his younger brother is Hussein al-Zawahiri, a planning engineer, while his sister is Heba al-Zawahiri, a professor of oncology at the National Institute of Oncology, Cairo University.
One of Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s grandparents is Sheikh Muhammad Al-Ahmadi Al-Zawahiri, the 29th Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, who assumed the leadership of Al-Azhar in 1929, and was behind the founding of the University Al-Azhar, Al-Azhar Press and Al-Azhar magazine.
As for his maternal grandfather, he is Abdel Wahab Azzam, one of the most famous writers in Egypt. He is Professor of Oriental Literature, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University and a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. His maternal grandfather’s cousin is Abdel Rahman Azzam, first secretary general of the Arab League. His mother’s uncle is Mahfouz Azzam, the lawyer, head of the Egyptian Labor Party, and his mother’s uncle is Salem Azzam, secretary of the European Islamic Council.
Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Join the jihad organization
Details on Al-Zawahiri narrated by Abdul Raouf, the Emir of Al-Jawish, a former leader of the Al-Jihad organization and one of the Al-Qaeda leader’s companions, and was among those charged in the case of military art in 1974. He graduated in 1975 and did not join the Brotherhood as reported, but was part of a group that embraced a mixture of Salafi and jihadist ideas.
In those years, the leaders of the Brotherhood were in jail after the 1965 case, and the group was dismantled and most of its members were arrested, so that those belonging to religious currents used to hide and disguise their ideas for fear of be stopped.
Abdul Raouf, prince of the armies
He added that Ayman was with a group of young men at the time, including Essam al-Qamari, a student at the Military College and the officer later, and one of the defendants in the case of the murder of the late President Anwar Sadat, who wore youth clothes. and a shaved chin, and they behave and lead their normal lives, so that no one doubts them, especially since The security forces at that time were vigilant, monitoring everyone and arresting any young person who showed any behavior that indicated their affiliation to religious organizations , stating that this group also included Hassan Al-Hallawi and they met in the mosque and exchanged religious books and publications, and they related well to each other.
Travel to Afghanistan
After Al-Zawahiri graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, that group met with one of the organization’s leaders while he was still alive and residing outside Egypt after his application for political asylum, as he convinced them to travel to Afghanistan to participate with the Afghan mujahideen in their war against the Soviet Union, and Sheikh Abdul Raouf says Al-Zawahiri wanted to travel and exploit his profession as a doctor. To treat the wounded and wounded, he traveled and stayed there for a year, first meeting Osama bin Laden there and joining him with the Ansar camp, which was founded by bin Laden, and then during his stay in the camp, treated the wounded and wounded.
A year later, according to the former jihadist leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri returned to Egypt, and Essam al-Qamari, one of the participants in the Sadat murder case, asked him to hide a group of weapons and ammunition in it. Ayman actually hid it from a friend of his, Nabil Burai, and they were all arrested, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, and he was acquitted of the charge of participation in the murder of Sadat, but was found guilty of possession of illegal weapons and sentenced to 3 years in prison until his release in 1985.
Sheikh Abdul Raouf used to meet Ayman frequently in prison corridors and exchange talks about ideas, planning plans, prison residence conditions and his life needs in cells. After his release from prison in the mid-1980s, Ayman traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan after communicating with Osama bin Laden, and has not returned to Egypt since, as his first wife traveled to him, who died there, and communications between him and Ayman were cut off after that, only to find out after that that he traveled to Sudan and then returned to Afghanistan. And Pakistan and founded the Al-Qaeda organization with bin Laden, and a group of Egyptian jihad fighters joined it.
But has Al-Zawahiri died, as reported through the Al Qaeda accounts?
Sheikh Abdul Raouf confirms that Al-Zawahiri may have died some time ago and that the timing of announcing the news of his death has political dimensions and other calculations.
