On Wednesday in a new call for Jihad against the United States and our Allies, Ayman Al-Zawahri has called for all Muslims to unite in Jihad in Iraq.
Al-Zawahri an Eye Surgeon who speaks several languages, took a path of Islamic extremism while in his late teens and later followed Bin-Laden as the two built Al-Qaida into an effective terrorist organization.
Born in Egypt in 1951, Al-Zawahri family are Physicians and Academics, his Father was a Pharmacology Professor, his Grandfather was a Physician & Surgeon. Now in his early 50s, Al-Zawahri is believed to have been the Operational Chief in the 1995 Suicide Bombings at the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan where 15 people died and involved in the 1998 Bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya & Tanzania in which 224 people were killed.
In the new 1 hour and 35 minute video which Al-Zawahri addresses numerous topics from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Gaza and Egypt. Dr. Al-Zawahri calls on all Muslims to join in the Jihad against the United States and also says, "...May Allah, pluck out your eye if you have not yet seen that Jihad is an individual duty..." He also encourages Muslims to show greater support for Islamic Iraq and Al-Qaida in Iraq and called on Kurds to the North to join forces with the insurgents.
During the Jihad message, Dr. Al-Zawahri criticized Egypt and Saudi Arabia for its support of the United States and warned against a Saudi influence in Iraq and warned against "...the Zionist crusade led by America."
