MEET PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1 AYMAN AL-ZAWAHARI

DEAD MAN

AL QAEDA have selected their longtime number two to become public enemy number one. 
As we reported here there were a number of candidates to fill the power vacuum left by the death of terror chief Osama Bin Laden, but now Ayman al-Zawahri has been chosen to lead them according to a statement posted Thursday on a website affiliated with the network.
The son of an upper middle class Egyptian family of doctors and scholars, his father was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University's medical school and his grandfather was the grand imam of Al-Azhar University, a premier center of religious study.

But this apple fell far from the tree and now, like Bin Laden, it's thought Al-Zawahari, who will turn 60 next week will direct the group's operations from somewhere on the Pakistan, Afghanistan border.   Al-Zawahri heaped praise on his predecessor in a videotaped message last month.
He said: "He went to his God as a martyr, the man who terrified America while alive and terrifies it in death, so much so that they trembled at the idea of his having tomb."

OSAMA BIN LADEN EULOGY: YOU'RE NEXT DICKHEAD

AL QAEDA number two (and trying harder) Ayman al-Zawahri delivered his often hilarious eulogy to former terror master, now fish food, Osama bin Laden whacked in a U.S. raid last month. We're still gonna terrify you," the good doc says, reassuring us. The video--hysterically called in true Al-Qaeda we're-going-to rule-the world-fashion "The Noble Knight Dismounted"--alternates between the terror number 2's poetry and verse. Disgruntled terrorists are now heading home because bin Laden was more fun and took himself less seriously.
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