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Al Qaeda Is Planning to Fake the Death of Its Dead Leader

WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S

Six months after he was taken out by a U.S. airstrike, al Qaeda is working on a plan to announce that their former leader Ayman al Zawahiri has died of ill-health.

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