[1]Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is still in Pakistan, a Pentagon official has said.
“We have no information to indicate that he is anywhere else than in Pakistan,” The News quoted Pentagon spokesman George Little, as saying.
Zawahiri took over the Al-Qaeda command after the then Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert US raid on his hideout in Pakistan’s garrison town of Abbottabad on May 2.
Earlier this week, Al-Qaeda had released a 62 minute, 16 second video titled, 'The Dawn of Imminent Victory', commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Released by Al-Qaeda’s media arm, as-Sahab, the video features an audio speech by al-Zawahiri and previously unreleased footage of bin Laden, according to the SITE intelligence group.
In his segment, which constitutes the majority of the video, Zawahiri speaks at length about events in the past year in the Muslim world vis-à-vis the Arab Spring, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and bin Laden’s death, the intelligence group added.
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