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
al-zawahiri, a man who knowed more than your average bear about the islamic radicalism in cairo and thanks for being up at o-dark thirty for us once again on this historic night. it t an historic night. and and i think it is a very important night and yes, i have been covering ayman al-zawahiri since the 1990st, i was in egypt when terrorist attacks were an increasing problem in the country, you mentioned the luxor attack, when a group of islamists went on a rampage and startedra massacring tourists i front of the monuments there, and then he decided to keep going, and heto joined up with osama bin laden, foundedin al qaeda, first, with the international front, against jews and crusaders, and to now, wede have come to where we are today. and i think there are really two