The US killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan, multiple sources say
Zawahiri, who just turned 71 years old, had remained a visible international symbol of the group, 11 years after the US killed Osama bin Laden. At one point, he acted as bin Laden's personal physician.The US government has not yet confirmed his death. President Joe Biden will speak at 7:30 p.m. ET on"a successful counterterrorism operation" against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the White House said Monday.
He made his public debut as a Muslim militant when he was in prison for his involvement in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. "We want to speak to the whole world. Who are we? Who are we?" he said in a jailhouse interview. By that time, al-Zawahiri, a young doctor, was already a committed terrorist who conspired to overthrow the Egyptian government for years and sought to replace it with fundamentalist Islamic rule.
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