How the CIA tracked down the world's most dangerous terrorist and killed him.Explainer: Who was al-Qaida leader al-Zawahiri — and why did US kill him?
This is the suspected location of the strike in Kabul - with the balcony now covered up(BBC)
Smoke rising from the house where Zawahiri is believed to have been killed.(Getty images)
The hunt for al-Zawahri continued despite the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times
Intelligence officers did a tremendous job. They found the leader of the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, Ayman al-Zawahri, he was walking on the balcony of his house early in the morning.
Experts have said that CIA officers were keeping a close watch on him, day-to-day activities were being monitored, seeing the opportunity, they attacked him with missiles.
Considered to be the mastermind of the 9/11 attack in America, many people lost their lives in that terrorist cowardly attack, America was lying behind it.
US experts have told that Pakistan was hiding near the border, when America attacked Afghanistan in 2001, many Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders were hiding there. The terrorist attacks on the American embassy in 1998, which took place in Kenya and Tanzania, were all of us and the strategists. The CIA was keeping a close eye on him. Haqqani network officials had provided him with a house, they used to meet him secretly.
A Pakistani soldier on guard at the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan. The C.I.A. searched the area for al-Zawahri, but was unable to find his house in 2012 and 2013.Credit...Caren Firouz/Reuters
In 2012 and 2013, the C.I.A. focused the hunt on Pakistan’s North Waziristan region. C.I.A. analysts were confident they had found the small village where al-Zawahri was hiding. But intelligence agencies could not find his house in the town of about a dozen compounds, making a raid or drone strike impossible.
US President Joe Biden has confirmed the death of the leader of the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, Al Qaeda.
after 9/11, al-Zawahiri rebuilt al-Qaida 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-Qaida after 9/11 carried out years of unrelenting attacks: in Bali, Mombasa, Riyadh, Jakarta, Istanbul, Madrid, London and beyond,
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