The new head of al-Qaeda was appointed

Al-Qaeda announced the new Emir of the International Terrorist Network, Al-Arabia reports on June 16. The successor of Osama Ben Laden, killed by American special forces in Pakistan, was Egyptian Aiman ​​Al-Zavakhiri.

Aiman ​​al-Zavakhiri is a qualified surgeon. In 1974, he graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Cairo. Al-Zavakhiri led the Egyptian terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, which joined al-Qaeda in 1998. Since then, he has become a personal adviser and doctor Ben Laden. After the attacks on September 11, 2001 in the United States, the State Department appointed a reward of $ 25 million for information about the whereabouts of Al-Zavakhiri. Biographers Ben Laden called al-Zavakhiri the "brain" of the terrorist network.

As the newspaper De Telegraaf wrote in May with reference to sources in the Dutch special services, Al-Zavakhiri was appointed leader of al-Qaeda on May 9, a week after the death of Ben Laden.

The meeting of the Council of the terrorist group took place in tribal areas near the Afghan-Pakistani border. According to Dutch intelligence, Al-Zavakhiri himself proposed to elect the al-Qaeda leader of one of the sons of Usama Ben Laden Saad Ben Laden, but he refused.