The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike, President Joe Biden said Monday in a speech from the White House.
“I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield, once and for all,” Biden said.
Zawahiri, who just turned 71 years old, had remained a visible international symbol of the group, 11 years after the US killed Osama bin Laden. At one point, he acted as bin Laden’s personal physician.
Zawahiri was sheltering in downtown Kabul to reunite with his family, Biden said, and was killed in what a senior administration official described as “a precise tailored airstrike” using two Hellfire missiles. The drone strike was conducted at 9:48 p.m. ET on Saturday was authorized by Biden following weeks of meetings with his Cabinet and key advisers, the official said on Monday, adding that no American personnel were on the ground in Kabul at the time of the strike.
Senior Haqqani Taliban figures were aware of Zawahiri’s presence in the area, the official said, in “clear violation of the Doha agreement,” and even took steps to conceal his presence after Saturday’s successful strike, restricting access to the safe house and rapidly relocating members of his family, including his daughter and her children, who were intentionally not targeted during the strike and remained unharmed. The US did not alert Taliban officials ahead of Saturday’s strike.
In a series of tweets, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said, “An air strike was carried out on a residential house in Sherpur area of Kabul city on July 31.”
The rest is here: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/politics/joe-biden-counter-terrorism/index.html
This sounds familiar, haven’t they claimed killing this guy a few times before? Just saying…..I recon it is awful convenient to burn up fake news airtime
I keep thinking about this. The timing. Is Joe needing to appear powerful, especially with elections coming up? Does anyone actually believe he does any of this? When he spoke about it on t.v. yesterday he held up all the lies of 9/11, especially on who did it. Well, his script-writers did and he deliverded. After more than 2 decades can any still not know 9/11 was a Mossad/CIA job, inside and out? Joe came on to insult us. We weren’t insulted but made more determined to fight for freedom.
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Galen, I was thinking the exact same thing. The administration needed some good news, so they blow up an Al-Qaeda leader again. So this morning I was reading about this story on the BBC and locals said the house was empty and no one lived in it, but some “arabs” had been seeen in the area recently. Like most news media these days I suspect this is theatre.
‘ I suspect this is theatre.’
Just about everything is theater
10 thousand more will take his place.
Taliban ‘couldn’t find’ Al-Zawahiri’s body after US assassination in Kabul
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/taliban-couldnt-find-al-zawahiris-body-kabul
“Everything was destroyed, but we did not find a body there,” he said.
Maybe it’s on Epstein Island.
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