Claim: Al-Zawahiri is guided by KGB successor agency

On the subject of "How a Secret, Failed Trip to Chechnya Turned Key Plotter's Focus to America and bin Laden." A 2002 WSJ article: Saga of Dr. Zawahri Sheds Light On the Roots of al Qaeda Terror:

"In the end, his cover held, and he was freed. Still, Dr. Zawahri's brush with disaster, previously known to only a few Islamist chieftains, forced a critical change in his lethal planning. It also set the stage, ultimately, for Sept. 11 and the global war now under way between America and terrorists under the banner of al Qaeda. Instead of Chechnya, Afghanistan began the locus of his terrorist plotting. And America, not Egypt, became the target."

And now Northeast Intelligence Network: Ayman al-Zawahiri: Echoes of Alexander Litvinenko who is quoted by the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita in the Saturday, July 16, 2005 issue:

"Ayman al-Zawahiri trained at a Federal Security Service (the former Russian KGB) base in Dagestan in 1998. He was then transferred to Afghanistan where he became Osama Bin Laden's deputy. I was working in that section at the time and I can confirm the fact Zawahiri was not the only link between the FSB and Al-Qaeda."

Northeast Intelligence Network continues:

"Yes, America, every time you see, read or hear about a new communication coming from Ayman al-Zawahiri know you that his words are in the service of the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin. Putin is the latest in a string of totalitarian, communist czars whose own rhetoric and actions of late clearly identify the regime as a deadly enemy of the United States of America and our closest allies. Know you also that since 1998 Al-Qaeda under Ayman al-Zawahiri’s leadership is effectively a Russian proxy terrorist force -- that the unprovoked mass-murder attacks on September 11, 2001 were planned, authorized, and executed near simultaneously with the Al Qaeda fatwa and very real threat of an ‘American Hiroshima’ by a FSB/KGB-trained operative and tactical asset, one Ayman al-Zawahiri."