![]() Broadcasts featuring Ayman al-Zawahiri in October 2001 (Maher Attar/Sygma via Getty Images) Why my family left Maadi and immigrated to the United States had a lot to do with the then burgeoning Islamist militancy in Egypt that Zawahiri helped create. It was also where Zawahiri first clandestinely organised and began his militant jihad. It was where I was born and spent my early childhood, and I often visited in the 1980s and 1990s after my family migrated to America. At that time, Maadi was a quiet suburb away from the hustle and bustle of central and Old Cairo. Zawahiri grew up and lived in the same suburb of Cairo as my mother’s family – Maadi. His death spurred a flurry of analysis and debate about what his presence in Kabul reveals about Zawahiri’s influence and what’s next for al-Qaeda.įor me, Zawahiri imparted a very personal legacy. I honestly thought he would cark it before he was ever killed or captured. It was widely believed that Zawahiri was gravely ill. ![]() Zawahiri has been a fixture of the jihadist scene for decades, surviving imprisonment, torture, war and life on the lam with a US$25 million bounty on his head. ![]() News that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed last week by US precision drone strike caught me by surprise. ![]()
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