{"id":1583663,"date":"2022-08-01T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T01:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583663"},"modified":"2022-08-01T21:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T01:04:51","slug":"biden-us-kills-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-us-kills-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden: US Kills Al Qaeda Leader Ayman Al Zawahiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-us-kills-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The United States has killed the leader of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-al-qaeda\">Al Qaeda<\/a>, President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully concluded an airstrike in Kabul Afghanistan that killed the Emir of al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri,\u201d Biden said in an address at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>American forces conducted the precision drone strike on the Al Qaeda leader in Kabul, Afghanistan, Biden said, after the U.S. intelligence community located Zawahiri earlier this year. Biden said the strike did not lead to civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, wrote on Twitter on Monday that \u201can air strike was carried out on a residential house in Sherpur area of Kabul city\u201d the past Sunday. Mujahid said the attack was conducted by American drones.<\/p>\n<p>Al Zawahiri succeeded Osama bin Laden as the leader in June 2011, when bin Laden was killed by the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI listed Al Zawahiri as a \u201cmost wanted terrorist,\u201d for the murder of U.S. nationals outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Biden called Zawahiri the \u201cnumber two\u201d at the time of the 911 terrorist attack and \u201cthe mastermind\u201d behind attacks against Americans \u201cfor decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zawahiri was also indicted for his alleged role in the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, according to an FBI wanted notice. Biden said the embassy attack killed 224 people and wounded 4,500 others. Zawahiri is also believed to have plotted the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 in which\u00a017 U.S. sailors were killed.<\/p>\n<p>A U.N. Security Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/wanted\/wanted_terrorists\/ayman-al-zawahiri\/download.pdf\">report<\/a> dated 2021 said Zawahiri was \u201cailing\u201d in Afghanistan then and that Sayf-Al Adl was to be Zawahiri\u2019s \u201cmost likely successor\u201d who then resided in the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The strike came a year after the Biden administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has killed the leader of Al Qaeda, President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday. \u201cOn Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully concluded an airstrike in Kabul Afghanistan that killed the Emir of al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri,\u201d Biden said in an address at the White House. 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