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Yesterday, US President Joe Biden announced the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the perpetrators of the 9-11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. ;
Zawahiri was killed in an aerial attack in the center of Kabul, where he was a guest of the Taliban. The house was hit by two Hellfire missiles during an anti-terrorist operation at 6:18 a.m. Kabul time on Sunday. Only Zawahir was injured. “We are confident through our intelligence sources and methods – including multiple intelligence methods – that we killed Zawahiri and not other people,” a senior administration official said. “His death is a devastating blow to al-Qaida and will undermine the organization’s ability to carry out its operations, including in the United States.”
Zawahiri led the al-Qaida terrorist group after the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Zawahiri once served as bin Laden’s deputy and helped plan terrorist attacks against the United States and Americans abroad, including the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 that resulted in the death of 17 sailors and the wounding of many others and the attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. August 1998 which killed 224 people and injured more than 4,500. In a statement, Biden said, “He has carved a trail of murder and abuse against American citizens, American workers, American diplomats and American interests.”
Since bin Laden’s death, Zawahiri has reorganized al-Qaida’s branches around the world – including setting priorities and providing operational leadership that has called for intensified attacks on US targets. said Biden.
“Now justice has been done, and this terrorist leader is no longer here,” said the president. “People around the world do not need to fear a deadly terrorist attack. The United States continues to demonstrate our determination and strength to protect the American people from those who seek to harm us.”
The discovery of Zawahiri was the result of the vigilance, patience and work of counter-terrorism experts, said a security official. “The ability to work with him properly was obtained through the immediate action taken by the president once we know where Zawahiri is and we can carry out the operation in a way that will limit the civilian risk,” said the official. ‘if. . “We made it clear again tonight that – no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide – if you threaten our people, America will find you and take you out.”
The plan to kill Zawahiri comes almost a year after Biden ended US military operations in Afghanistan. “I have decided that, after 20 years of war, the United States will no longer need thousands of shoes in Afghanistan to protect the United States from terrorists who seek to harm us,” he said at the White House. “And I promised the American people that we will continue to carry out effective counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere. We have done so.”
In a written statement issued by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, he said that the Taliban had broken the agreement it made with the leader of al-Qaida. “By hosting the leader of al-Qaida in Kabul, the Taliban have violated the Doha agreement and reiterated to the world that they will not allow terrorists to use Afghanistan to threaten the security of other countries. , they have also betrayed me. the people of Afghanistan and their desire for recognition from the international community and to settle them.”
