[demsux]

Not sure if this is posted right...can't link to Wiki for more details on this guy.

Is Zawahiri affiliated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood? If so, expect some REAL problems.

[Tea Party Reveler]

When Al-Zawahiri stood trial in Cairo in the early 1980’s as one of the Sadat assasination co-conspirators he clearly told us who he was and what he was about—Yet nothing was done!

“We are Muslims and we are terrorists!” —Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri to Western News Media Journalists during the Sadat Assasination trial.

[warchild9]

I just attended a lecture about this guy given by Steven Coll.

He, Zawahiri, has no direct connections with the Muslim Brotherhood, though they both preach Qtbism. (However, he and bin Laden are hand-in-hand. When certain authorities let bin Laden slip the noose, Zawahiri was within arm’s reach, too. Could have killed them both with the same bomb.)

Now, although not as popular as they once were, both are running loose and eyeing the growing leadership vacuum in the Middle East. Not cool.

[tentmaker]

Zawahiri is the far more dangerous mastermind of strategy and tactics that has made al-Qaeda successful, than bin Laden, who is more of a figurehead. Think Castro and Che. While we have probably known the whereabouts of bin Laden for many years, but used his high profile to betray other contacts, Zawahiri is one we should have taken out immediately upon learning of his location.

And yes, Z was connected to the MB in Egypt when he started out, but then almost every existing Middle East terror group is in some branch of the tree that grew from the roots of the MB.

[ransomnote]

For years now, whenever I read about major ‘hits’ in Iraq or Afghanistan, I lean closer hoping to hear that we ‘got’ Zawahiri. I have a lasting anger toward that man since I saw footage of him on his tour of the U.S.A shortly before 9/11. He was in a car near D.C. talking eagerly about how vulnerable to US was to terrorist attacks. The reporter was skeptical but Zawahiri eagerly detailed how it was indeed true that the US was vulnerable - he spoke of ‘soft targets’. He was lovin’ it - our naivete. Then, immediately after 9/11, the old goat had the gall to be interviewed on US TV once again eager -this time eagerly advising American school children not to worry about 9/11 and to expect the police in the U.S. to arrest people etc. (he was trying to coach the US to treat it as a police rather than military issue). I can’t wait for the day a drone gets him...

[BigSkyFreeper]

Is Zawahiri affiliated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood? If so, expect some REAL problems.

If he isn't in the MB now, he was back in the 1980's when he was jailed in Egypt.

[demsux]

I believe this is something everyone is ignoring...Coincidence that Z-Man is from Egypt and AQ wants to establish a caliphate.