MIAMI, United States.- United States President Joe Biden announced on Monday the death of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri in a drone attack over the weekend in Afghanistan, according to a report by the news agency. AFP news.
“On Saturday, under my orders, the United States carried out an air strike on Kabul, in Afghanistan, which killed the emir of al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri,” the president said from the White House.
“Justice has been served and this terrorist leader is gone,” Biden added in a televised address.
Ayman al Zawahiri, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world by the United States, who promised 25 million dollars for any information that would allow him to be arrested, took charge of the jihadist nebula in 2011, after the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of of an American commando in Pakistan.
Zawahiri, whose whereabouts were unknown for more than ten years, was considered the mastermind of the attacks of September 11, 2001, which caused almost 3,000 deaths in New York, says the note.
Al Qaeda’s number two, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, was killed in August 2020 in the streets of Tehran at the hands of Israeli agents during a secret mission led by Washington, The New York Times reported at the time.
According to AFP, in 2011 Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, inherited a decrepit organization, and in order to survive, doubled “franchises” and circumstantial oaths of allegiance, from the Arabian Peninsula to the Maghreb, from Somalia to Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. .
In late 2020, a rumor spread that he had died of heart disease, but he reappeared in a video.
Before Biden identified the operation, this Monday a US government official had anticipated that the United States carried out an “anti-terrorist operation against a major Al Qaeda target” in Afghanistan over the weekend. The operation “was successful and there were no civilian casualties,” he said.
The announcement comes nearly a year after the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, which allowed the Taliban to regain control of the country twenty years after they were overthrown.
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