Ayman Muhammad Rabi' Al-Zawahiri: The Making of an Arch-Terrorist

Terrorism and Political Violence

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1-22

  Raphaeli, Nimrod ^a  

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EID: 0037003598     PISSN: 09546553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714005636     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Aliases: Abu Muhammad, Abu Fatma, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abu Abdallah, Abu al-Mu'iz, The Doctor, The Teacher, Dr Abdel al-Muez (name used on US entry visa), Dr Abdel Moez Ayman al Zawahiri, Dr Ayman al Zawahiri, Amin Othman (name used on French and Swiss passports), Sami Mahmoud el-Hifnawi (name used on Dutch passport).
2. Time.com. Hate Club. 4 November, 2000.
3. A commentator in the same newspaper speculated that by 'Knights' the author was referring to the leaders of the Islamist movements and also alluding to the 'Knights of the Holy Grail' associated with the Christian Crusaders in the Middle Ages.
4. Wall Street Journal, 14 and 16 Jan. 2002.
5. The Arab world often uses the term mutashaddid (extremist) rather than irhabi (terrorist).
6. Some Egyptian reporters suggest that the family roots may extend as far back as Omar ibn-Al-Khattab, the second Muslim Khalifa.
7. Until his final departure from Egypt in 1985, AI-Zawahiri lived at No. 10, 154th street, in AI-Ma'adi where he was born and had lived. Al-Zawahiri's mother and niece still live in that house. According to the head of the Center for Islamic Studies in London, Al-Zawahiri's wife and his only son, Muhammad, were killed in Kandahar; Al-Hayat, 11 Dec. 2001. Al-Zawahiri, in an alleged telephone interview with Al-Majallah (16-22 Dec. 2001) denied this.
8. As far as can be ascertained, Al-Zawahiri has had no contacts with his family, including his mother, in Egypt, because of his desire to maintain anonymity as a leader of an underground movement and with a death sentence meted out on him by the Supreme Security Court in Egypt.
9. Al-Hayat, 12 Oct. 2001.
10. It was hardly surprising to find this sign on his door in Afghanistan: 'Dear brothers. This is a workplace! Entrance for those not working here is strictly forbidden. Dr Ayman', The Wall Street Journal, 14 Jan. 2002.
11. Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2001.
12. This was a religious-ideological movement which swept many organizations into the original and fundamental principles of Islam.
13. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 4 Dec. 2001.
14. An Egyptian magazine speculates that he was killed by Israeli agents to prevent him from taking his beliefs in Jihad to the Palestinian territory. This would appear to be far-fetched because the Islamic Jihad already existed in the area. See Akher Sa'a, 17 Oct. 2001.
15. Al-Hayat, 18 Nov. 2001.
16. An interview with Zawahiri's great uncle and lawyer, Mahfuz Azzam, in Akher Sa'aa, 17 Oct. 2001.
17. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 4 Dec. 2001.
18. 'Documents from the Years of Jihad', Al-Hayat, 17 Oct. 2001.
19. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 5 Dec. 2001.
20. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 7 Dec. 2002.
21. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 3 Dec. 2001.
22. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 3 Dec. 2001.
23. Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2001.
24. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 10 Dec. 2001.
25. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 10 Dec. 2001.
26. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 10 Dec. 2001.
27. The activities of bin Laden/Zawahiri in Sudan and their eventual conflict with Turabi on strategy are documented in Al-Hayat, 12 March 2002.
28. Al-Sharq Al-Amat, 3 Dec. 2001.
29. Rose Al-Yusuf, 19 Oct. 2001.
30. Jane's Intelligence Review, 3 Oct. 2001.
31. The Wall Street Journal, 2 July 2002.
32. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 2 Dec. 2001.
33. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 12 Dec. 2001.
34. Translation by Middle East Economic Survey, 15 Oct. 2001.
35. Al-Hayat, 11 Nov. 2001.
36. Quoted in Al-Hayat, 21 Nov. 2001.
37. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 6 Dec. 2001.
38. www.laitalqadr.com/stories/p4180402.april 18 2002.