Ayman Al-Zawahiri Likely To Lead Al Qaeda With Bin Laden Dead (VIDEO)

Ayman al-Zawahiri, a 59-year-old Egyptian-born doctor, is expected to become the leader of al Qaeda now that Osama bin Laden has died.

The Wall Street Journal describes al-Zawahiri as even more radical than bin Laden, though it notes he lacks the latter's wealth and charisma.

A trove of computer data discovered at bin Laden's compound, detailed here by Politico, could help the U.S. intelligence community learn more about al Qaeda and potentially even track down al-Zawahiri. Until then, he remains on the FBI's Most Wanted List and a major threat.

The CIA has had close calls in capturing al-Zawahiri before. Still at large, al-Zawahiri released a video on the Egyptian uprising earlier this year, stating democracy "can only be non-religious." He once called President Barack Obama a racial epithet.

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Comments

[Yeuk Moy]

03:43 PM on 05/04/2011

Ayman al-Zawahiri was always the intellectual and philosophical heart of Al Queda. The only reason Ossama headed Al Queda was that he had the charisma, resources, and organizational skills.

[stealth694]

02:16 PM on 05/04/2011

Hopefully other faction leaders will decide that Ayman al-Zawahiri is two radical, to this or not enough of that and kill him.

[LeoTheDog]

12:51 PM on 05/04/2011

Maybe the Pakistan government will help us find THIS guy now.

[jesuaphn]

12:39 PM on 05/04/2011

Get ready al-Zawahiri you are next.

[Dragline]

12:37 PM on 05/04/2011

At least, he's go that convenient target in the middle of his forehead.

[mindfull1]

12:32 PM on 05/04/2011

On to the next boogie man.
http://www.fuckthebullshit.net/

[James Dauphinais]

12:08 PM on 05/04/2011

Looks like Seal team six has another job to do.. In other words YOUR NEXT!!!!!

[Relpo Miraculous]

02:37 AM on 05/04/2011

Keep the list of future targets coming.
Who will be the first Palestinian to try and sit in the top dog seat?
You know one is coming...eventually.

[European1919]

02:54 AM on 05/04/2011

Yes. Because the USA is only kept alive by the need to interfere in other nations' (internal) politics and the insatiable urge to wage war.
Should it one day fail to do either it will crumble and become the geopolitical nonentity it was before WW1.

What a relief that would be for the rest of the planet.

[slinkybro]

01:54 PM on 05/06/2011

They can just go back to killing each other.

[chris87654]

01:13 AM on 05/04/2011

He might want to consider getting bulletproof glasses.

[tobadgop]

10:35 PM on 05/03/2011

Dont worry, when the Seals put their Laser scope on that mark on his forehead, Ayman Al-Zawahiri will wish he was never born.

[chris87654]

01:15 AM on 05/04/2011

Like Gaddafi, I wonder what goes through his mind, knowing someday it could be a SEAL's bullet.

[Jim Pasterczyk]

09:18 PM on 05/03/2011

Our next target . . .

[joeyfoto]

08:59 PM on 05/03/2011

Osama Bin Laden was a rich idiot with a big mouth and an adolescent bad-attitude; Ayman al-Zawahiri is a crafty and thoroughly evil manipulator, who is a committed to the slaughter of all who disagree with his dim-witted, 7th century delusions about Fundamentalist Islam. The true success of this raid would be if it shortened the path to al-Zawahiri's door.

[horsey]

09:57 PM on 05/03/2011

not hardly but i'm sure he hears the foot steps already