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"Appearing alongside high-profile opponents of President Putin, he [Alexander Litvinenko] has continued to make allegations about his former bosses. Perhaps most notably, he alleged that al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained by the FSB in Dagestan in the years before 9/11". --------http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6163502.stm 3 posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2011 6:24:03 AM by ETL

Egyptian Ayman al Zawahiri is, now that Osama bin Laden has been taken out of the way, the number one al Qaeda leader that Obama has yet to show any interest in takeing out. Ayman al Zawahiri's brother is a commmunity organizer in Egypt today and was one of the protest leaders in the recent Cairo embassy storming on the same day as the Benghazi attack.

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A few months before the Nov 2006 assassination:

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 : () “Russia’s parliament on Friday ratified a global treaty aimed to prevent nuclear terrorism, a year after President Vladimir Putin became the first leader to sign the pact. ‘Ratification of this document answers to the interests of Russia and the entire international community,’ Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.” -————Russia signs [sic; ratifies] treaty to prevent nuclear terrorism (The Jerusalem Post, 15Sep06, AP)http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1157913634576&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull