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
and make sure that we had the capacity from an over the horizon perspective, to deal with any threats to the homeland. mr. zawahiri s presence in kabul certainly met that test, because heul has been actively involvedn planning and plotting threats against our homeland going forward. one of the things that the president mentioned tonight int hispr remarks is that zawahiri s been recently making videos, calling for people to attack americans, and to attack u.s. interests. that s right. we ve heard from senior administration officials that it is possible even after his death al enqaeda, or their confederat may release further zawahiri videos and banked ahead of his death, do you anticipate that will pose additional threats and raise the threat level for the united states inat terms of potential terror? it very well could. we could don t know how many videos he record and whether