An eye doctor turned terrorist!

 

He was born in Egypt and steps towards religious fundamentalism from childhood. He is fighting for the implementation of Islamic laws in some Arab countries along with Egypt. For that, he left the medical profession, took a gun, and ran toward terrorism. As a key figure in Al Qaeda, at one stage he was responsible for being the chief of a terrorist organization that sought to become a superpower, and finally, he was killed without anything achieved except massacres. This is the story of Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahari in brief. The background of many doctors and scholars is from the Jawahari family. Father Mohammed-al-Zawahari worked as a professor at Cairo University. His grandfather is also an imam in the same university.

Following in his father's footsteps, Jawahari also completed his graduation in medicine in 1974 from this university. After that, he completed his master's in Surgery in four years and worked as an eye surgeon. Along with education since childhood, he was devoted to religious fundamentalism. At the age of 15, he joined a militant group working against the government and was arrested. Due to extremist ideology, he could not continue as a doctor for long. When the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist group was formed in 1973, Jawahari joined it. In 1981, the then president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, participated in a military parade in Cairo. Some gunmen dressed as soldiers killed him. After this incident, Egyptian police arrested hundreds of suspects and terrorists across the country. Jawahari is also present in it. Although he was found innocent, he was sentenced to three years in prison for possessing weapons.

Friendship with Osama

After his release from prison in 1985, Jawahari traveled to many countries like Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries, and Afghanistan. Be friended Osama-bin-Laden in the process. Even when bin Laden started a terrorist group called Al Qaeda, Zawahari was by his side. After that, he merged the militancy group he managed in Egypt with Al Qaeda. He later became bin Laden's, right-hand man. About 12 hundred civilians were killed in the attacks carried out by Zawahiri across the country with the aim of overthrowing the Egyptian government. In 1997, he shifted to Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Laden was also used to conduct his terrorist activities from there. After that, both of them together with other Islamic groups formed the World Islamic Front. Through this front, they attacked the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and killed 228 people.

Role in 9/11 attacks

Jawahari played a key role in the terror attack carried out by bin Laden, who hijacked planes with suicide squads on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTO) in America. For this, Jawahari has been collecting funds from the Islamic community all over the world for several years. After that, when the American government was determined to defeat Al Qaeda, Jawahari hid on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and worked to strengthen the terrorist organization. He served as the supreme leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Central Asia, and Yemen. In 2005, he carried out a terrorist attack in London and killed 52 people. He committed terrorist attacks in Bali, Mombasa, Riyadh, Jakarta, Istanbul, and Madrid. After bin Laden was killed by US forces in 2011, Zawahiri took over as Al Qaeda chief and made the terrorist organization active. He joined America's FBI's most wanted list. US on Jawahari's head Rs. 196.25 crores ($25 million) reward was announced.