By LEE KEATH 

Al-Zawahri's path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida

 


CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The doors of jihad opened for Ayman al-Zawahri as a young doctor in a Cairo clinic, when a visitor arrived with a tempting offer: a chance to treat Islamic fighters battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

With that offer in 1980, al-Zawahri embarked on a life that over three decades took him to the top of the most feared terrorist group in the world, al-Qaida, after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Already an experienced militant who had sought the overthrow of Egypt's "infidel" regime since the age of 15, al-Zawahri took a trip to the Afghan war zone that was just a few w...



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