Arab stagnation. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018093 --- PAGE BREAK --- Article 3. The New Yorker Zawahiri at the Helm Lawrence Wright June 16, 2011 -- Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon, has come into his inheritance—A1] Qaeda—at a time when the organization is at its nadir. Osama bin Laden, its charismatic found

e Middle East, is that Hamas accepts elections (and, in fact, took power in Gaza in part because of them) while al Qaeda vehemently rejects them. For Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Ladin's deputy and presumed heir- apparent, elections put man's (and, even worse, woman's) wishes above God's. A democratic government cou

nown to analysts by his first name) was the boss's key link with the outside, officials see him as more important than bin Laden's nominal successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Here are the highlights: •Bin Laden retained until his death a passion to launch a significant attack against the United States, ideally linked to t