“Justice has been served”. This is what US President Joe Biden says about the drone attack that took Ayman al-Zawari’s life. The 71-year-old man is known for having taken over the leadership of the terrorist group al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden. Ayman al-Zawahri is known for urging young Muslim men in the United States and other Western countries to carry out attacks in audio recordings that were circulated online.
Who was al-Zawari?
al-Zawari was born in Cairo and already at a young age became a prominent voice among radical Muslims in Egypt. In the 1980s, he left his homeland to join the Afghan resistance movement, which fought against the Soviet occupying power.According to Washington Post he was known to many Americans as “the second man behind al-Qaeda”. In fact, he led his own militant terrorist organization, guilty of both terrorist attacks and attacks on civilians before formally joining himself; and its organization; to al-Qaeda in the 90s. He is believed to have been driving the work to expand the group’s terror tactics towards the West.How did he get to know bin Laden?
al-Zawari got to know bin Laden in the late 1980s when al-Zawari treated the former terrorist leader in the caves of Afghanistan during Soviet bombing. Both men escaped capture when US-led forces overthrew Afghanistan’s Taliban government in late 2001 after the 9/11 attacks.What do we know about the effort?
On the night of Tuesday, the AP reported that five sources with insight into the CIA’s operations informed that al-Zawari was unharmed. The attack took place in Kabul last Saturday and is said to have resulted in no civilian casualties. A high-ranking source in the US administration states that al-Zawahiri was killed by a drone while he was standing on a balcony in the Afghan capital.A few hours later, the information about the attack was confirmed by President Joe Biden, who announced during a speech that he had been killed on his orders on Sunday.
– Justice has been served and this terrorist leader has been neutralized. People around the world no longer need to fear this brutal and determined killer, Biden said.What do the Taliban say?
The attack is now being condemned by a Taliban spokesman on Twitter who says that the Doha agreement, which outlines the terms for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, prohibits attacks from the US.The text is updated
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