Following up on this from earlier:
- says a US counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan over the weekend killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri
- “Justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more”
- Biden says he made the final approval to kill al-Zawahiri a week ago
Zawahri was the No. 2 in Al Qaeda on September 11. US American officials considered him a central plotter of the attacks.
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The Taliban was harbouring Zawahri in a Kabul safe house, in violation of the Doha agreement.
