By the CNN Wire Staff
June 16, 2011 -- Updated 1403 GMT (2203 HKT)
A frame grab from a videotape aired 05 August 2006 on the Al-Jazeera television network shows Ayman al-Zawahiri.
(CNN) -- Ayman al-Zawahiri emerged from a privileged upbringing in Egypt to become one of the world's most wanted terrorists and now, the leader of the most notorious terror group: al Qaeda.
The bespectacled 59-year-old surgeon formally merged his group, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, with al Qaeda in 1998, becoming then-leader Osama bin Laden's personal physician and closest confidant.
A month and a half after bin Laden's death in a U.S. raid on his compound in Pakistan, al-Zawahiri has been appointed the new leader of al Qaeda, according to a statement posted on several jihadist websites Thursday.
Al-Zawahiri and al Qaeda has been blamed for numerous terrorist attacks worldwide, mainly on Western targets, including the attacks of September 11, 2001, on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people.
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