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| DEAD MAN |
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.
