Ayman al-Zawahiri: How a CIA Drone Strike Nearly Killed the Head of Al-Qaeda

“Pakistan’s Inter-Services
Intelligence agency (ISI) has been protecting the Egyptian-born
al-Zawahiri, a trained surgeon, since U.S. forces evicted Al-Qaeda from
Afghanistan in late 2001, several authoritative sources tell Newsweek. His
most likely location today, they say: Karachi, the
teeming port city of 26 million people on the Arabian Sea.”