The United States kills al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri

• Al-Qaeda leader has been killed in an attack.
• Ayman al-Zawahiri was bin Laden’s right-hand man.
• He was killed in a US drone strike.

The United States has killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of Al Qaeda, in an aerial operation last weekend in Afghanistan. A senior official of the Biden administration confirmed the news to The Associated Press. «The operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties,» the source added.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, who is still quarantining due to a Covid relapse, was scheduled to speak on television later Monday about the details of the operation, according to the White House The president is still expected to go before the cameras.

The war with al-Qaeda!

The announcement of al-Zawahiri’s death comes two weeks before the one year anniversary of the chaotic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan that allowed the Taliban to regain control of the country twenty years after being overthrown.

That failed operation marked the lowest point of Biden’s presidency to date. A blow from which, in some ways, he ahs not recovered in terms of reputation and public acceptance. The situation was worsened by a near war with Russia and now a possible confrontation with Taiwan. FILED UNDER: USA al-Zawahiri

Officials receive the news

According to The Associated Press, unmanned aircraft, 0r drones, from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) entered the territory where al-Zawahiri was in Afghanistan and shot him to death. Current and former officials began to hear Sunday afternoon that al-Zawahri had been killed in the attack.

Ayman Al-Zawahiri, 71, who founded the terrorist group behind the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, was killed in an attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Known as ‘The Doctor’ or ‘Doctor Death’, Al-Zawahiri was believed to have masterminded the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. FILED UNDER: USA al-Zawahiri

There was a bounty on his head

According to The Sun, Al-Zawahiri replaced Osaba bin-Laden after he was killed in 2011, he had a $25 million bounty on his head. A senior Biden official stated that the Egyptian-born terrorist was killed over the weekend in a «counterterrorism operation against a major al-Qaeda target in Afghanistan.»

They added that «the operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties.» Since the events of September 11, 2001, when al-Qaeda terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers, the United States has been in a confrontation with them. FILED FROM: USA al-Zawahiri