US President Joe Biden said leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, the hardest hit leader since the 2011 assassination of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, was killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan over the weekend.
The drone strike was the first known strike from the mainland since the withdrawal of US troops and confirmed Washington’s belief that the threat from Afghanistan could be eliminated without the presence of the US.
Mujahid damned the strike as a violation of “international principles”.
According to him, it went against the 2020 agreement on a US troop withdrawal.
Some activists have expressed concern that Zawahiri, who has been ill for a long time, was given asylum by the Taliban after the August 2021 takeover of Kabul.
Zawahiri in 2011 became head of Al-Qaeda after the US military killed Osama bin Laden, the founder of the terrorist organization.
Zawahiri, the $25 million Egyptian surgeon, comes from a prominent Egyptian family and his grandfather was an imam at Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
About 3,000 civilians were killed on September 11 in what is considered the deadliest attack on American soil.
It is believed that bin Laden was behind the attack, and Zawahiri, disguised as a doctor, helped carry out his deadly plan.
In addition, Zawahiri was imprisoned for his role in the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
According to the Rewards for Justice website, Zawahiri ordered the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 US sailors and injuring more than 30 others.
He was charged in the United States
with involvement in the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people.
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