One of the last times al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was on center stage was roughly 40 years ago, when the international media captured his rants from a cage at the relative back again of an Egyptian courtroom.
The cameras captured him shouting about the torture he and other prisoners experienced as a result of Egyptian jailers. He started the group chanting: "Our company is Muslims. We are Muslims."
Zawahiri's prison time in Egypt not only set him from the regime there, but also marked the start of his lifelong hatred of the U.S.
When he eventually joined forces with Osama bin Laden, he passed that enmity along, but it ended for al-Zawahiri on Sunday local time in Afghanistan after an unmanned U.S drone fired two hellfire missiles at a safe house in Kabul, killing him.
President Biden noted Monday that al-Zawahiri was Osama bin Laden's deputy during 9/11 and that he was "deeply mixed up in planning."
"For decades he was the mastermind behind attacks against Americans," Biden added, noting the 2000 USS Cole attack and the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
Biden also detailed al-Zawahiri's role leading al-Qaida since bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in 2011, including contacting followers in recent weeks to attack the U.S. and allies.
Bruce Hoffman, director of the guts for Tranquility and Security Studies at Georgetown College or university, said in 2011 that while al-Zawahiri had a reputation for being prickly and dogmatic, he might emerge as an even more robust leader than bin Laden.
"Unlike bin Laden, he previously the street cred at having been a dyed-in-the-wool terrorist from enough time he was an adolescent," Hoffman said. "OK, he's not as telegenic as bin Laden. He lacks bin Laden's charisma. He does not have bin Laden's mellifluous voice, but he is still an extremely powerful physique within the movement."
Bin Laden had talked about creating a base for a broader Islamist movement as though it were a mantra. He wanted a business that didn't need him to survive. And al-Zawahiri has kept it going in the decade since bin Laden's death.
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