(Reuters) - A U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeted al Qaeda's second-in-command, 
Ayman al-Zawahiri, but it was unclear if he had been killed, CNN quoted U.S. sources as saying on Friday.
Following are five facts about Zawahiri:
* Zawahiri is described as the chief organizer of al Qaeda and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's closest mentor.
* Zawahiri and bin Laden met in the mid-1980s when both were in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar to support mujahideen guerrillas fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
* Born in 1951 to a prominent Cairo family, Zawahiri was the son of a pharmacology professor and grandson of the grand imam of Al Azhar, one of the most important mosques in the Arab world.
* He graduated from Egypt's most prestigious medical school in 1974.
* When the militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded in 1973, he joined. When members posed as soldiers and assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981, he was among 301 people arrested. He went on trial but was cleared of involvement in Sadat's death. He did, however, spend three years in jail for possession of an unlicensed pistol.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, but it was unclear if he had been killed, CNN quoted U.S. sources as saying on Friday.Following are five facts about Zawahiri:
* Zawahiri is described as the chief organizer of al Qaeda and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's closest mentor.
* Zawahiri and bin Laden met in the mid-1980s when both were in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar to support mujahideen guerrillas fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
* Born in 1951 to a prominent Cairo family, Zawahiri was the son of a pharmacology professor and grandson of the grand imam of Al Azhar, one of the most important mosques in the Arab world.
* He graduated from Egypt's most prestigious medical school in 1974.
* When the militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded in 1973, he joined. When members posed as soldiers and assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981, he was among 301 people arrested. He went on trial but was cleared of involvement in Sadat's death. He did, however, spend three years in jail for possession of an unlicensed pistol.
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