This is the guy to watch
Fox News captured an interview with Mohamed al-Zawahiri the brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri al-Qaeda’s number one guy.
Mohamed Al Zawahiri has been our primary radar blip since his release from prison in March 2011 during the Egyptian uprising. The interim “governing” Egyptian Military released Mohamed Al Zawahiri after they permitted the Muslim Brotherhood to re-organize following 30 years of banishment. They then opened the jails to release all the Mubarak captured prisoners.
Mohamed was the guy who coordinated and called for the protests at the Egyptian embassy. He is also the guy who coordinated with the Benghazi rebels last year to assist their uprising against Gaddafi.
It is our opinion that Mohamed plans to coordinate efforts in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia and Turkey toward al-Qaeda North Africa (AQIM); while his brother, Ayman, continues the same efforts in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, while aligned with AQAP (al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsular). Meanwhile Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar et al work to destablize the South.
Both brothers are devout Salafists and apparently factional al-Qaeda operatives. It is all blending together now – becoming clear. The Salafists, Taliban, al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas are all in alignment under the same ideological banner. The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to maintain a guise to the West – However, as recently seen/witnessed in Egypt, their slip mask is showing.
In 1999, security forces picked up Mohamed Al Zawahiri in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he had settled with his family and was working as an engineer for a construction company.
He claims UAE authorities tortured him for four months — at the behest of the CIA — in an attempt to extract information about his brother. During that time, Zawahiri says, he offered to mediate between his brother and the West, something he believes could have prevented the Sept.11 attacks, but his overtures were rebuffed by UAE officials.
In 1999, he was extradited to Egypt to face terrorism charges related to Sadat’s assassination and conspiracy to topple the regime — charges he denies, but he was jailed by Mubarak in Egypt. He was later acquitted upon appeal, but Mubarak refused to let him leave prison. He remained in jail until March of 2011 when he was released.
Zawahiri spent the following five years in solitary confinement in Egypt’s notorious underground prisons. There, in a 6-by-6-foot cell with no access to sunlight, he says, he was repeatedly waterboarded, electrocuted, and subjected to sleep deprivation.
His family had no idea where he was, or even if he was alive, until it emerged that the United States wanted his DNA to compare it to a skull found in a cave in Afghanistan — one that might belong to his brother Ayman.
Zawahiri thinks that militant Islamist movements pose a big enough threat that the United States will ultimately yield to his demands. “Hundreds or thousands of attempts may fail, but one can succeed and destroy the Western civilization,” he writes in his proposal, citing al Qaeda’s attempts to obtain weapons of mass destruction and the escalation of violence in Iraq. “The next hit or string of attacks cannot be anticipated. No single group or persons can force themselves to control the situation or prevent it.”
Learn about his approach and his intentions in this article.
Judging by what the “West” has put this guy and his family through, it would be pretty darned difficult to think of him burying the hatchet per se’, without his intention to bury it deep in the psyche of the United States.
Apparently, “we” have created this monster, “we” have hardened him, and subsequently he holds MAJOR street cred with all factions of radical Islam. This guy is a Martyr in life, he don’t need death. He says “pull the trigger” – everyone shoots.
Given Mohamed’s enormous Islamist pulpit, he will leverage influence over multiple varying factions within all of the aforementioned radicals (al-Qaeda, Taliban, Salafists, MB etc).