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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=13853304
Al-Qaeda: No. 2 Al-Zawahri Succeeds Bin Laden
(AP-ABC News) Hamza Hendawi - Al-Qaeda's longtime No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, 60, an Egyptian doctor who worked with Osama bin Laden for decades, has succeeded the slain terrorist as head of the global network, the group said Thursday. In a 2001 treatise, Zawahri set down the long-term strategy for the jihadi movement - to inflict "as many casualties as possible" on the Americans. "Pursuing the Americans and Jews is not an impossible task," he wrote. "Killing them is not impossible, whether by a bullet, a knife stab, a bomb or a strike with an iron bar."