{"id":46974,"date":"2022-08-02T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/who-was-ayman-al-zawahiri-the-al-qaida-leader-who-helped-plot-their-deadliest-attacks"},"modified":"2022-08-02T20:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:36:35","slug":"who-was-ayman-al-zawahiri-the-al-qaida-leader-who-helped-plot-their-deadliest-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46974","title":{"rendered":"Who was Ayman al-Zawahiri? The al-Qaida leader who helped plot its deadliest attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lifelong jihadist who became Osama bin Laden\u2019s successor, Zawahiri waged a long war of terror against the US and its allies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/us-strike-afghanistan-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri\">Report: Ayman al-Zawahiri: al-Qaida leader killed in US drone strike<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sallow-skinned and clad in white in front of a green backdrop, Ayman al-Zawahiri looked a shadow of the man who had terrorised the world for more than a quarter of a century. The first \u2013 and last \u2013 image of the al-Qaida leader taken in close to 15 years was a far cry from the dour militant on a mountain ridge depicted in earlier shots. Instead it evoked an image of a man who was nearing his time.<\/p>\n<p>And so it was when a US drone finally caught up with Zawahiri, sitting on a balcony in the heart of Kabul, a long way from Afghanistan\u2019s valleys and plateaus, from where he had helped lead a generation of global jihadists and plot a series of terror attacks that had defined modern history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/who-was-ayman-al-zawahiri-the-al-qaida-leader-who-helped-plot-their-deadliest-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifelong jihadist who became Osama bin Laden\u2019s successor, Zawahiri waged a long war of terror against the US and its alliesReport: Ayman al-Zawahiri: al-Qaida leader killed in US drone strikeSallow-skinned and clad in white in front of a green backdr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,487,2333,486,2291,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-ayman-al-zawahiri","category-osama-bin-laden","category-september-11-2001","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46998,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46974\/revisions\/46998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}