the man who was bin laden s number two in al-qaeda, the man who took over as al-qaeda s leader after bin laden was killed by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. the string of attacks and murders attributed to ayman al-zawahiri is stomach turning. he was the ideological mastermind behind the term of al-qaeda and groups like that towards indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere including muslims all in the name of islamic piety. and how he got there now looking back at it seemed like a straight shot, but if you sort of dropped in on him at any time in his biography you wouldn t have known he was going there. by the time he was 15 years old he was a committed radical who wanted to try to impose islamic theocracy by force. he formed his first terrorist cell when he was all of 15 years old. when islamic militants did assassinate egypt s president at a military parade in 1991 ayman al-zawahiri was one of hundreds islamic radicals tried and imprisoned for that crime. he was tortured for ye
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
rachel, any time we ve had an amendment up for a budget point of order it s always been a 60-vote threshold. it s different with this. i think it sets a precedent not healthy for congress, but nonetheless i do believe there s a path to get this done tomorrow. it s going to take it s going to take our two leaders, schumer and mcconnell, negotiating to get an agreement where we can get this bill passed. remember this, a health care that is delayed is health care that s denied. and we ve already had many, many folks die from disorders from these toxic burn pits. and it s not only the veteran that has suffered and are suffering but it s also their family. and when we send folks off especially to the war we just got out of for the last 20 years, they re exposed to stuff that people shouldn t be exposed to. and these burn pits are just one example. and it s just the right thing to do to get this done.
group formally absorbed zawahiri s group. from that point forward they were no longer compatriots, now in 2001 al-qaeda was it. he was bin laden s second in command and his strategic think, where his ideological guide, his doctor, the chief operating officer of al-qaeda. two days before the 9/11 attacks in an operation masterminded by zawahiri, a man was assassinated, the strongest leader in that country opposed to the taliban. zawahiri wiped him out on september 9, 2001, doing a huge favor to the taliban, in debting the taliban to himself essentially. two days later of course they
zawahiri s background is there anything i got wrong or anything else you can tell us how this unfolded? i think you did a pretty good job telling who this man was, what he was responsible for. there was a lot of work done in the intelligence community to get us to this point. it was painstaking, meticulous work. as you pointed out in your opening, rachel, the president was kept informed throughout, finally made the decision in late july, july 25th specifically. even though he d given the order on the 25th the conditions needed to be right. weather needed to be factored in. of course mr. zawahiri needed to be where we thought he would be on his pattern of life. and the president was clear he didn t want us to cause civilian casualties, so that also factored into making sure