al-Zawahri is referred to as Osama bin Laden’s “right-hand man” and heir. On the night of Tuesday Norwegian time, US President Joe Biden announced that the Al Qaeda leader had been killed in an American drone attack at the weekend. – Justice has prevailed, and this terrorist leader is no longer alive, Biden said in a televised speech from the White House. He said he ordered the operation last week and that there were no civilian casualties. He also said he hoped al-Zawahri’s death would be a comfort to the families of those killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001. al-Zawahri is accused of masterminding the attacks. US President Joe Biden gave a televised speech on Tuesday night Norwegian time. Took over from bin Laden The Egyptian doctor al-Zawahri took over the leadership of Al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011. He is accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks on the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in 2001, when almost 3,000 civilians were killed. Since 2001, he has been wanted, and the United States offered a reward of 25 million dollars for information that could lead to his capture or death. Rumors have circulated several times in recent years that he was dead, but a video in April in which he praised an Indian woman who refused to take off her hijab was the first evidence in a long time that he was alive. Ayman al-Zawahri is believed to be the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. Photo: Seth Mcallister / AFP Taliban confirm The Taliban confirmed to Reuters that a residence in Kabul was hit by a drone attack, but condemned the attack, calling it a violation of international obligations . The US, for its part, says al-Zawahri’s presence in Kabul was a clear violation of the 2020 agreement between the Taliban and the US that paved the way for the US withdrawal last year. A US official said al-Zawahri was killed by two drones on the balcony of a house in central Kabul, and that there had been no Americans on the ground in connection with the attack. The house that was attacked was owned by an associate of Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani. according to intelligence sources. Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri photographed in 2006. According to President Joe Biden, he was killed this weekend in a drone attack in Kabul. Photo: Anonymous / AP Discovered earlier this year It was earlier this year that the US discovered that al-Zawahri’s wife, daughter and daughter’s children had moved to Kabul. Later it was established that he himself also lived in the house. His family was elsewhere in the house when he was killed. Over the weekend, the Taliban denied there had been a drone attack, saying only that a rocket had hit an empty house. The attack is the first long-range US strike against Afghanistan since the withdrawal from the country in August last year.
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