WASHINGTON: Monday's President Joe Biden stated Monday that an American drone strike in Afghanistan on Saturday killed Ayman al Zawahri, the successor to Osama Bin Laden.
ET Saturday night marks the first U.S. strike in Afghanistan since the end of America's 20 year war in Afghanistan. According to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity, the strikes killed al-Zawahri, the senior leader of al Qaida since 2011. Biden spoke from the White House balcony after he recovered from COVID-19. He called al-Zawahri the "mastermind" behind decades of attacks on the U.S. Biden stated that he was bin Laden's top deputy in the 2001 terrorist attacks. He also helped to carry out the 2000 bombings on the USS Cole and 1998 bombings on U.S embassies at Tanzania and Kenya.
He called al-Zawahri "the mastermind" for decades of attacks against the U.S. The president said that people around the globe no longer have to fear bin Laden's vicious and determined killer. He was also the top deputy to bin Laden during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. After a July 25 meeting of top advisors, the president was informed of the operation and approved it. "After carefully considering clear evidence of his location, he has been removed from the battlefield once for all," Biden stated. The official stated that Al-Zawahri’s death is a "significant blow" to the group's ability, including against the U.S homeland. According to the official, Biden claimed that al-Zawahri continued to give strategic direction to the terrorist network. He also made videos calling for further attacks against the U.S. According to the official, this year the U.S. intelligence discovered that al-Zawahri’s wife, her daughter, and their children had been moved to Kabul to be safe. Al-Zawahri was identified later.
"No matter how long it takes or where you hide, if your threat to our people is, the United States of America will find you and take out you," Biden stated. He was vice president during the U.S. killing of bin Laden in 2011. The U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2011, ending America's longest-running war. In the middle of last August's U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Taliban Took Control Of Afghanistan.
Zawahri spoke better English than bin Laden. He also did a lot behind-the scenes to unify and maintain the various al-Qaida groups. Sen. Joni Ernst (Republican from Iowa) praised the announcement. However, some U.S. counterterrorism officials dismissed the significance of the strike by saying that al-Zawahri never truly stepped in to the void left after bin Laden's death. Javid Ali, a Senior National Security Council counterterrorism official in Trump's, although he was ahi's, but never had the same as bin Laden. Ali said that he was more of a "caretaker" and not a "visionary". Ali also served 16 years at the top of national security posts at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Department of Homeland Security, and FBI. Al-Zawahri wrote in 1998 that killing Americans and their supporters anywhere in the world was an individual duty for all Muslims who are able to do so in every country. He played a crucial role in bin Laden's oversight of the suicide hijackings three years later. They were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Pakistani ally.
The 9/11 Commission and other investigative agencies didn't pay as much attention to Al-Zawahri’s role in 9/11 as Mohammed and bin Laden. His leadership of the large contingent of Egyptians who had traveled to Afghanistan to join al-Qaida provided the financial, organizational and operational expertise necessary to execute the attacks. Mohammed Atta was the ringleader of the 9/11 plot and a fellow Egyptian. Many of the top commanders of Al Zawahri were also Egyptians. He was the leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad which was responsible for the assassination in 1981 of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Ali said that he was very influential. Ali said that Ali was a doctor and a thinker, and that he was more than 10 years older than bin Laden when they met in Afghanistan.
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