1. Starting a running thread here documenting jihadist eulogies or laments now being released for Ayman al-Zawahiri:
2. Here is Abu Hafs al-Maqdisi, the emir of Jaysh al-Ummah, a pro-al Qaeda group in Gaza #Palestine. Abu Hafs wishes for Zawahiri the highest level of 'paradise.'
3. Another early one is from Abu Yusuf al-Muhojir, the leader of the Syrian branch of Katibat Imam al-Bukhari. The group also operates in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban and al Qaeda. Muhojir asks for Zawahiri to be blessed with 'paradise' after a long life of service in jihad.
4. Here's former Hay'at Tahrir al Sham official now independent jihadist in #Syria Abu al-Abed Ashidaa calling for Zawahiri to be "rewarded" with paradise for his long service in jihad
5. In a post attributed to Abu Qatada al Filistini, the longtime al Qaeda ideologue argues that Zawahiri's legacy will be like the "invincible mountains."
6. Former al Qaeda senior leader Abu Hafs al Mauritani says that "the eye sheds tears" and "the heart is saddened" for the death of Zawahiri.
7. Here's two Hay'at Tahrir al Sham officials, Abu Mariyah al Qahtani and Abu Abdullah al Shami, eulogizing Zawahiri (h/t @azelin)
8. Here's a channel linked to the Chechen/North Caucasian jihadist group in #Syria Ajnad al-Kavkaz calling Zawahiri a shahid, or martyr, and extolling his long career in jihad
9. And here we have pro-AQ ideologue Akram Hijazi celebrating Zawahiri's 40+ years of "combating tyranny and the tyrants." (also h/t to @azelin)
10. Here's Sirajaddine Zureiqat, the former emir of the now disbanded al Qaeda affiliated Abdullah Azzam Brigades in #Lebanon and #Syria, both lamenting Zawahiri's death and calling for jihadi unity in the face of the "Zionists" and "Safavids," or Iran/Shia Muslims.
11. Hassan Dahir Aweys, the storied Somali jihadi figure who once led the AQ affiliated Al Itihaad al Islamiyya and is now under a form of house arrest, released a statement about Zawahiri directed to Joe Biden saying that "in this world or the hereafter, we will have victory."
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