A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and ensured Al Qaeda survived and spread in the years after. President Joe Biden on Monday announced the killing of al-Zawahiri, delivering a significant counterterrorism win just 11 months after American troops left the…
Al-Zawahiri merged his own Egyptian militant group was Al Qaeda. He brought Al Qaeda the organizational skill and experience — honed underground in Egypt, evading Egyptian intelligence — that allowed Al Qaeda to organize cells of followers and strike around the world.After the years of quietly assembling the suicide attackers, funds and plans for the Sept. 11 attack, Zawahiri ensured that Al Qaeda survived the global manhunt that followed to attack again.
On the run after 9/11, al-Zawahiri rebuilt Al Qaeda leadership in the Afghan-Pakistan border region and was the supreme leader over branches in Iraq, Asia, Yemen and beyond. With a credo of targeting near and far enemies, Al Qaeda after 9/11 carried out years of unrelenting attacks: in Bali, Mombasa, Riyadh, Jakarta, Istanbul, Madrid, London and beyond.
His presence in Afghanistan had been widely suspected for some time, analysts said. U.S. officials learned this year that Zawahiri's wife and other family members had moved to a safe house in Kabul recently. Zawahiri soon followed, the senior administration officials said. U.S. officials, joined by top leaders all the way up to, eventually, Biden, spent careful months confirming his identity — and his fateful practice of standing alone on that same balcony — and planned the strike.
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