Smoke has been rising over Kabul after a drone strike on al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Joe Biden said 'justice has been delivered' after ordering the strike which killed the man who was one of the masterminds of the 9/11 terror attacks. Read more:
This is the most significant"get" for the Americans since US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden at his Pakistani hideout in 2011.
In recent years he may not have appeared to be an active figure, but has been an ever-present figurehead over a franchised organisation who’s anti-western ambitions have never changed. He was an Egyptian who was jailed in Cairo with other Islamists in the 1980s. He became the brains of Al Qaeda; the guiding figure behind the public face that was Bin Laden.
President Biden said repeatedly that he would not allow Afghanistan to be a safe haven for terrorists.But here's the troubling reality for the Americans. They have admitted that the Haqqani network, a US-designated terrorist group and key element of the Taliban, was protecting Zawahiri in Kabul. Speaking on 31 August 2021, after the last US troops left Afghanistan, Mr Biden said the US would not let up on its fight against terrorism in that country or elsewhere."We just don't need to fight a ground war to do it."
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