| LC control no. | n 2001050632 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ẓawāhirī, Ayman |
| Variant(s) | Al-Zawahiri, Ayman Abu Abdallah Abu Fatima Ibrahim, Muhammad, 1951-2022 Abdel Muaz Abu Muhammad Nur al-Deen, Abu Mohammed Abu Muʻiz ظواهري، ايمن al-Zawahiri, Ayman Mohammed Rabie |
| Birth date | 19510619 |
| Death date | 20220731 |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Bin Lādin wa-al-Jazīrah wa-- anā, 2001: p. 159 (Ayman Ẓawāhirī; amīr Jamāʻat al-Jihād) FBI Most Wanted Terrorists WWW page, July 22, 2003: (Ayman Al-Zawahiri; date of birth used: June 19, 1951; Aliases: Abu Muhammad, Abu Fatima, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abu Abdallah, Abu al-Mu'iz, Abu Mohammed, Abu Mohammed Nur al-Deen, Abdel Muaz) Wikipedia.org, viewed 9 May 2023 Ayman al-Zawahiri (Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri June 19, 1951-July 31, 2022, Egyptian-born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011, until his death on July 31, 2022, leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian Islamist organization, imprisoned from 1981 to 1984 for his role in the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, close associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, al-Zawahiri held significant sway over the group's operations. Al-Zawahiri was wanted by the United States and the United Nations, respectively, for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and in the 2002 Bali bombings. He merged the Egyptian Islamic Jihad with al-Qaeda in 2001 and formally became bin Laden's deputy in 2004. He succeeded bin Laden as al-Qaeda's leader after bin Laden's death in 2011. On July 31, 2022, al-Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri> |
| Invalid LCCN | no2003112271 |
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