A US drone strike has killed Al Qaeda terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri at a hideout withinside the Afghan capital, Kabul. Announcing the demise of one of the guys who plotted the 9/11 assaults, American President Joe Biden stated "justice have been delivered" to sufferers of the 11th of September, 2001 assaults.
"This terrorist chief isn't anyt any more," Biden stated, including that he was hoping Zawahiri's demise could bring "closure" to households of the 3,000 human beings killed withinside the United States on 9/11.
A senior management legit stated Zawahiri turned into at the balcony of a residence in Kabul while he turned into focused with Hellfire missiles, an hour after dawn on 31 July. No US employees had been found in Afghanistan.
"We aren't privy to him ever leaving the secure residence. We diagnosed Zawahiri on a couple of activities for sustained durations of time at the balcony . . . wherein he turned into in the end struck," the legit stated.
According to the legit's account, the president gave his inexperienced mild for the strike on 25 July. Biden stated there had been no civilian casualties withinside the operation.
It turned into the primary recognised over-the-horizon strike through the US on an Al-Qaeda goal in Afghanistan considering that American forces withdrew from the u . s . a . on 31 August 2021.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated on Monday nighttime that "through web website hosting and sheltering" Zawahiri, the Taliban had "grossly violated the Doha Agreement" signed in 2020, which paved the manner for America's withdrawal.
On the run for twenty years
Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician who grew up in a cushty Cairo family earlier than turning to violent radicalism, have been at the run for twenty years because the 9/11 assaults.
He took over Al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden turned into killed through US unique forces in Pakistan in 2011, and had a $25 million US bounty on his head.
Over the weekend the Afghan indoors ministry denied reviews circulating on social media of a drone strike in Kabul, telling the AFP information company a rocket struck "an empty residence" withinside the capital, inflicting no casualties.
On Tuesday Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that an "aerial assault" turned into performed on a house withinside the Sherpur vicinity of the city.
"The nature of the incident turned into now no longer found out at first. The protection and intelligence organizations of the Islamic Emirate investigated the incident and observed of their initial investigations that the assault turned into performed through American drones," his tweet stated.
Doctor became jihadist
Zawahiri, who turned into 71, turned into believed to had been the principle strategist of numerous terrorist operations, inclusive of the 11th of September assaults, in addition to being Osama bin Laden's non-public doctor.
Saudi Arabia, the house u . s . a . of bin Laden and of some of the 9/11 hijackers, welcomed the statement of Zawahiri's demise.
"Thousands of harmless human beings of various nationalities and religions, inclusive of Saudi citizens, had been killed," through terrorists beneathneath his leadership, the Saudi overseas ministry stated.