原文标题：Al-Zawahri becomes new al Qaeda leader
资料来源：CCTV News，CNTV English
发布时间：06-17-2011 08:58 BJT

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Ayman al-Zawahri
Osama bin-Laden
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Pakistan
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Al Qaeda has a new leader. That's according to a statement on an Islamist website published today. It says Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin-Laden's long-time lieutenant, has now taken full command of the group's operations. Zawahri, who has long been viewed as bin-Laden's most likely successor, vowed earlier this month to press ahead with al-Qaeda's campaign against the US and its allies. It was his first public response to the U.S. commando raid in Pakistan last month, in which bin-Laden was killed. Believed to be in his late 50s, Zawahri met bin-Laden in Pakistan in the mid-1980s, while helping guerrillas fight the Soviet troops in Afghanistan. He now tops Washington's most-wanted list, with a 25-million U.S.-dollar bounty.