6 minutes agoAl Qaeda leader Beden: People don't need to fear the savage killer anymore
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(4 years ago)US President Joe Biden said the United States conducted an anti-terrorism operation Saturday in Afghanistan killing the top leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was deputy founder of the terrorist group Osama bin Laden, when they organised September 2001 attacks against the United States. President Biden said [...]
President Biden said US intelligence officials traced al-Zawahiri to a house in the centre of Kabul, where he was hiding with his family, who did not suffer during the attack.
“Justice is now established and this terrorist leader is no longer”, President Biden said in a statement from the White House.
People worldwide no longer need to be afraid of the vicious and determined killer. The United States continues to demonstrate its determination and capacity to protect the American people against those who seek to harm us. We make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, wherever you hide, if you're a threat to our people, the United States will find you and get rid of”, President Biden said.
Confirmation of the attack took place hours after Taliban rulers in Kabul said a missile attack Sunday against a residential complex in the Afghan capital was carried out with an American threat.
Afghanistan's “Islamic favourability strongly condemns this attack on any pretext”, Taliban spokesman Zubiullah Mujahedid said in a statement, using the official name for the Taliban government.
He denounced the attack as a “open violation of international principles and the Dohas” agreement, referring to the 2020 agreement his group signed with the US, which led to the withdrawal of all American and Allied troops from Afghanistan last August, after almost 20 years of fighting with the Taliban.
The Islamic rebel group took over Afghanistan on 15 August after the US-led foreign troops withdrew and the Western-backed government in Kabul, as well as its security forces, collapsed in the face of the Taliban attack.
The US-led military coalition invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 and toppled the then Taliban government in Kabul to punish him for hosting the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri survived the international military operation. US special forces later found and killed bin Laden deep inside neighboring Pakistan in May 2011. / VOA
