Washington: Ayman Al Zawahiri, Al-Qaida's second in command after Osama Bin Laden, carrying $25 million bounty is hiding at Quetta in Balochistan province. A master of disguise and the brain behind the Al-Qaida, Egyptian-born Zawahiri who has been on the run since 9/11 roams openly and with impunity in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Washington Times reported quoting top Pakistani intelligence brass.
While Predators have an eye out for the Egyptian radical and have in the recent past tracked his movements, they haven't been able to pin him down for a missile strike. The paper reported that the US Drone attacks had forced him to move to South Waziristan Agency in Pakistan in 2008. But the wily terror brain sensing danger to his life moved to South Balochistan and then to provincial capital Quetta.
Zawahiri, the report said shuns high-trappings and moves in small entourages and dresses in the manner of the people where he hides. He also moves his wives to preclude any identification through them.
The paper said Zawahiri does not trust locals and his security force consists of mainly of trusted Egyptians. Though Pakistani intelligence have shared with the CIA location of Zawahiri's hideout in Quetta's suburbs, the paper said the No 2 most wanted man in the world roams free.