Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was a formidable foe to the U.S. prior to his death in a CIA drone strike. Born in Cairo in 1951, he was a physician and the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), which opposes the secular Egyptian Government and seeks to overthrow it through “violent means,” the U.N. Security Council said. The EIJ merged with Al-Qaeda around 1998. Al-Zawahiri would later become Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man and replace his predecessor as the group’s top leader following Osama’s death in 2011. Osama was killed during a raid in Pakistan. Al-Zawahiri was on the FBI’s m…

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