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Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri in Pakistan: Pentagon
WASHINGTON : Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is still in Pakistan , a Pentagon official said Wednesday, following the
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"We have no information to indicate that he is anywhere else than in Pakistan," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
Zawahiri, a veteran Egyptian militant and long-time Al-Qaeda number two, took over the militancy network after bin Laden was killed in a clandestine raid by US Navy commandos.
Zawahiri -- in the 62-minute video entitled "The Dawn of Imminent Victory," and which featured a speech by bin Laden -- said he was praying this year's Arab Spring would be followed by a "gloomy, bitter-cold American winter."
Zawahiri was only shown in a still picture in the video, which was released by Al-Qaeda's media arm, as-Sahab, and posted on websites Monday.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011