Autobiography 'might be bin Laden aide's last work'

In an autobiography that some describe as his last testament, Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant wrote he may not get another chance to speak out because of ‘‘troubled circumstances’’.

The first part of a manuscript attributed to Ayman al-Zawahri, an Egyptian surgeon with a death sentence hanging over his head in Egypt for his part in committing terrorist acts during the 1990s, appeared yesterday in the London-based Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat.