Ayman al-Zawahiri
The Mahalo Top 7
- CNN: Al Qaeda No. 2: We Don't Kill Innocents
- Los Angeles Times: Bin Laden's Deputy Fields Queries (April 3, 2008)
- Wikipedia: Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Al Jazeera: Profile: Ayman al-Zawahiri
- FBI: Most Wanted Terrorists: Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Laura Mansfield: Interview with Zawahiri (December 16, 2007)
- CBS News: Terror Chief Calls Bush A 'Butcher' (2006)
Ayman al-Zawahiri Recent News
- Telegraph: Al-Qa'eda Doesn't Kill the Innocent, Says Second-in-command Ayman Al-zawahiri (April 3, 2008)
- Al Jazeera: Al-Qaeda Deputy: UN Enemy Of Islam (April 3, 2008)
- BBC News: Al-Qaeda Deputy Defends Attacks (April 3, 2008)
- Bloomberg: Zawahiri Defends Al-Qaeda Attacks That Kill Muslims (April 3, 2008)
- FOX News: Al Qaeda Offers Cell-Phone Downloads of Bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri Videos (January 6, 2008)
- New York Times: Qaeda Deputy to Take Queries (December 21, 2007)
- Times of India: Qaida Offers 'Open House' with Zawahiri (December 21, 2007)
- Al Jazeera: Al-Zawahiri: British 'Fleeing' Iraq (December 17, 2007)
- The Guardian: Al-Qaida's Deputy Leader Threatens Retaliation for Rushdie's Knighthood (2007)
- New York Times: U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ’05 (2007)
- Economist: Global Terrorism: On the March, Not on the Run (2007)
- CNN: Egyptian Doctor Emerges as Terror Mastermind (2005)
Ayman al-Zawahiri Background and Profiles
- TIME: "Ayman al-Zawahiri" (2006)
- Council on Foreign Relations: "Profile: Ayman al-Zawahiri" (2006)
- BBC News: "Profile: Ayman al-Zawahiri" (2004)
Leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad
- Wikipedia: Egyptian Islamic Jihad
- Center for Nonproliferation Studies: Al-Jihad al-Islami
- Al Arabiya News: "Egypt's Jihad Group Leader Wants End to Violence" (December 9, 2007)
- Council on Foreign Relations: "Jamaat al-Islamiyya" (2005)
- CDI: "In the Spotlight: Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)" (2002)
1997 Luxor Massacre
- Wikipedia: November 1997 Luxor Massacre
- BBC News: "Massacre in Luxor" (2002)
- Archeology: "Insight: The Death of Innocents: The Luxor Massacre" (1998)
- CNN: "Security Tightened in Egypt After Massacre" (1997)
Fatwa with Osama Bin Laden
- Mahalo's Guide to Osama Bin Laden
- Wikipedia: World Islamic Front
- The Times: "Bin Laden’s Deputy Behind the Red Mosque Bloodbath" (2007)
- Christian Science Monitor: "The 'Cave Man' and Al Qaeda" (2001)
- Federation of American Scientists: "World Islamic Front: Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders" (1998)
Relationship with Iran
- MEMRI: "Al-Zawahiri: ‘Iran Stabbed a Knife into the Back of the Islamic Nation’" (December 18, 2007)
- Informed Comment: Zawahiri: Iraq Main field of Jihad Attacks Iran (December 18, 2007)
- Christian Science Monitor: Iran Holds Al Qaeda's Top Leaders" (2003)
Ayman al-Zawahiri Blogs and Commentaries
- Counterterrorism Blog: Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri Denounces Annapolis Conference (December 14, 2007)
- Whitehouser: al-Zawahiri Playing Game of Politics, Iraq Commentary (2007)
- Jamestown Foundation: "Al-Zawahiri's Bid to Stir Rebellion in Pakistan" (2006)
- Boston Globe: "Time to Talk to Al Qaeda?" (2005)
- Jewish Virtual Library: "Ayman Muhammad Rabi' Al-Zawahiri" (2003)
Ayman al-Zawahiri Photos
- Google Image Search: Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Yahoo! Image Search: Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Live Search Images: Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Flickr: Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri Videos
- Wikipedia: Videos of Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Google Video: Al Qaeda Past, Present and Future (01:15:42)
- YouTube: Jihad Should Strive to Liberate Any Land that Was Once Islam (Time 03:37)
- YouTube: Anti-al-Zawahiri Ad: 'These Are The Stakes' (Time 01:05)
- Crackle: Olbermann's Special Comment on New GOP Fear Ad (10:23)
Ayman al-Zawahiri Timeline
- 1951: June 19, Ayman al-Zawahiri is born to a middle-class family in Egypt
- 1951-1965: Influenced by his great uncle, Mahfouz Azzam, al-Zawahiri becomes a follower of Sayyid Qutb
- 1964: Sayyid Qutb publishes Ma'alim fi al-Tariq, outlining what would become Qutbism
- 1965: al-Zawahiri joins the Muslim Brotherhood
- 1966: The Egyptian Government executes Sayyid Qutb
- 1966: In response to the Qutb execution, al-Zawahiri forms an anti-government action group
- 1974: al-Zawahiri graduates from Cairo University with a degree in psychology and pharmacology
- 1974-1977: Serves as a surgeon in the Egyptian Army
- 1978: Recieves a masters degree in surgery
- 1978: Marries Azza Nowari
- 1981: al-Zawahiri emerges as the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad
- 1981: Following the assassination of Anwar Sadat, al-Zawahiri is arrested
- 1985: al-Zawahiri visits Saudi Arabi on Hajj and continues on to Pakistan
- 1990: At Maktab al-Khadamat, al-Zawahiri meets Osama Bin Laden
- 1991: As rebel groups split, al-Zawahiri becomes the leader of the Pakistan Egyptian Islamic Jihad
- 1993: Posing as "Dr. Abdul Mu'iz" of the Kuwait Red Crescent, al-Zawahiri tours California
- 1997: Upset with anti-terrorist movements in Egypt, al-Zawahiri organizes an attack on the Luxor temple
- 1998: Osama Bin Laden joins a fatwa with al-Zawahiri under the World Islamic Front
- 1998: Officially merges the Egyptian Islamic Jihad with Al Qaeda
- 1999: Egypt sentences al-Zawahiri to death in absentia for his involvement in the Luxor massacre