zawhahiri is stomach churning.ch he was the ideological master behind behind the turn of al qaeda andnd groups like that toward indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere, including muslims, all in the name of islamic piety and how he got there, we now, looking back at it, it seems like a straight shot, but if he dropped in at any time of his biography, you wouldn t have known, trained as a doctor, as a surgeon, a respected family in egypt, born and raised in cairo. by the time he was 15 years old he was a committed radical who wantedic to impose islamic theecacy by force all of 15 yearsfo old. when islamic militant disassassinate egypt s president anwar sadat at a military parade in 1981, he was one of hundreds ofe islamic radicals who was tried and imprisoned and tortured for years in egyptian prisons. while there he became an informant, supplying information on hisin comrades, and released fromra prison in egypt in 1948 d even more radical than when he had gone in an
been a lot easier if he was quiet. but the fact that bill russell wanted to take upon his role, his platform his position to be able to speak for all black people is why it s so special and why we celebrate him today. kavitha davidson and etan thomas, that s all for us tonight. the rachel maddow show starts that is all for us tonight rachel maddow show start good evening, rachel. go good evening, charles. thank you very much. it s good to see threw. good to see you, too. thanks for joining us this hour. after the 9/11 attacks, it took about 10 years for the united states government to get osama bin laden, it happened in may, 2011, and now, as of tonight, we know it took another 11 years after that to get bin laden s brain, to get the man who was bin laden s number two and al qaeda at the time of 9/11 and took over as al qaeda s leader after bin laden was killed by u.s. navy seals. the string of attacks and murders attributed to amman al
in 1981, he was one of hundreds ofe islamic radicals who was tried and imprisoned and tortured for years in egyptian prisons. while there he became an informant, supplying information on hisin comrades, and released fromra prison in egypt in 1948 d even more radical than when he had gone in and nurtured the growth of his terrorist group between, he had literally founded as a teenager, it was called al jihad or islamic jihad and spent time after the release iner prison in saudi arabia, in pakistan, in afghanistan, and eventually came close withni a rich saudi arabian guy who in 1988 had founded his own terrorist organization. the saudi guy was wealthy enough that he was able to bankroll much of the movement himself. he also had great connections all across the arab world. he was a great recruiter to their cause.