Nabila al-Zawahiri (Arabic: نبيلة الظواهري, romanized: ʾNabila al-Ẓawāhirī, born 1986) is the daughter of Al-Qaeda co-founder Ayman al-Zawahiri and the wife of the group's external communications chief, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi.[1]
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نبيلة الظواهري | |
| Born | 1986 (age 37–38) Afghanistan (suspected) |
| Organization | Al Qaeda |
| Spouse | Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi |
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Biography edit
Nabila was the third daughter born to Ayman al-Zawahiri and his first wife, Azza Ahmed Nowari, likely born in Afghanistan amid the Soviet–Afghan war.[2] A deeply conservative and modest woman, Azza died following a US airstrike in Gardez, Afghanistan in 2001, after being pinned down by rubble and refusing rescue to avoid her face being seen by male rescuers.[3] Ayman was killed in a CIA drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2022.[4] Nabila has three living sisters and one half sister. Two other siblings died in the events surrounding the 2001 US airstrike which precipitated her mother's death. Mohammed died immediately of blast injuries, Aisha, a four year old sister who had Down syndrome, froze to death waiting for rescue.[3]
References edit
- ^ Wright, Lawrence (2006). The Looming Tower (PDF). Knopf. ISBN 0-375-41486-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2014.
- ^ Wright, Lawrence (2002-09-08). "The Man Behind Bin Laden". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ a b "For al-Zawahiri, anti-U.S. fight is personal". CBS News. June 16, 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-05-23. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ^ Cooper, Helene; Barnes, Julian E.; Schmitt, Eric (August 1, 2022). "Live Updates: U.S. Drone Strike Said to Have Killed Top Qaeda Leader". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on August 1, 2022. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
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