Who Will Now Lead Al Qaeda After Ayman al-Zawahiri Was Killed In Afghanistan?

Pictured in just one of three published photos, al-Adel is the likely successor to the al-Qaeda throne. He is credited with masterminding the bombings of three US embassies in 1998 as well as playing a key role in the notorious 'Black Hawk Down' plot  

Daily Mail: Is this Al-Qaeda's next terror chief? Secretive heir apparent who 'oversaw Black Hawk Down operation' and helped carry out 9/11 attacks is poised to take over after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Afghanistan 

* Terror leader who named himself 'Sword of Justice' now thought al-Qaeda chief 

* Relatively young Islamist security leader known for shrewdness and poker face 

* He oversaw notorious 1993 'Black Hawk Down' operation which killed US troops 

* Al-Adel is a mainstay of the FBI Most Wanted list, with a $10million info reward 

The heir apparent to the al-Qaeda throne after tonight's confirmed death of Ayman al-Zawahiri is a canny, military-trained operative with experience killing British and American soldiers. 

Egyptian ex-army officer Saif al-Adel was a founding member of al-Qaeda, having joined pre-cursor terrorist group Maktab al-Khidamat in the late-1980s. 

 There he met future allies Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, whose separate group Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) he would soon join.  

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WNU Editor: I concur with the above analysis. Saif al-Adel will be (if not already) Al Qaeda's next leader.