US STRIKE IN AFGHANISTAN KILLED IN AL QAEDA LEADER AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI

President Joe Biden said on Monday that the United States had executed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda and one of the most wanted terrorists in the world who was thought to be the planner of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Biden claimed in a televised speech that the attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, had taken place on Saturday. He stated, "I gave the final authority to go grab him," and added that there had been no harm done to any civilians.

Biden declared, "Justice has been served, and this terrorist commander is no more."

Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by a drone attack on the balcony of a home in Kabul, according to a senior administration official, and there were no American troops present in Afghanistan.

Zawahiri's presence in the Afghan capital Kabul, according to the official, was a "obvious violation" of a deal the Taliban and the US made in Doha in 2020 that allowed for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Since American forces left Afghanistan on August 31, 2021, it is known that this was the first over-the-horizon attack by the US on an Al-Qaeda target there.

Since the 9/11 attacks that claimed over 3,000 lives in the United States, Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who grew up in a privileged Cairo family before converting to violent radicalism, had been on the run for 20 years.

After Osama bin Laden was murdered by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011, he claimed control of Al-Qaeda and a $25 million US bounty was placed on his head.

The Afghan interior ministry rejected over the weekend claims that a drone had attacked Kabul, telling AFP that a rocket had instead hit "an empty house" in the capital, leaving no injuries.

However, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted early on Tuesday in Kabul that a "aerial attack" was conducted on a residence in the Sherpur neighbourhood of the capital.

"At first, the incident's nature remained a mystery. The Islamic Emirate's security and intelligence organisations looked into the situation and determined from their initial inquiries that American drones were used in the attack, according to his tweet.

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