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US President Joe Biden announced on Monday the death of Ayman Al Zawahiri, who, according to information provided by the US president, died in a US attack in Afghanistan.
Al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan, without any US military presence on the ground, a US official said on Monday.
“There were no US personnel on the ground in Kabul,” the senior official said, adding that Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s mere presence in the Afghan capital was a “clear violation” of agreements reached with the Taliban in Doha in 2020.
Considered the intellectual author of the September 11 attacks in which nearly 3,000 people died in the United States, Ayman Al Zawahiri took over the leadership of the terrorist organization after the death of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, who died in an attack by a US command in Pakistan.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed in a statement that an attack had taken place, denouncing it as a violation of “international principles”.
US President Joe Biden will speak on Monday about what the White House has described as “a successful counterterrorism operation.”
The State Department was offering up to $25 million in rewards for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the al-Qaeda leader. This announcement comes almost a year after the chaotic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, which allowed the Taliban to regain control of the country twenty years later.
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