Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared on his balcony. The CIA was watching — and ready to kill him.
. He was nominally in command of a terrorist organization that operates as a network of affiliates in Africa and the Middle East.But for Biden, the strike is a significant political and strategic victory.
During June and July, teams gathered to vet the intelligence, ruling out any reasonable alternative explanation for who was hiding in the house. Government lawyers confirmed the legal basis for the operation, which is standard procedure for drone strikes. Zawahiri had a “continuing leadership role in al-Qaeda” and had participated in and supported terrorist attacks, the senior official said. He was deemed a lawful target.
“He sought explanations of lighting, of weather, of construction materials, and of other factors that could influence the success of this operation and reduce the risk of civilian casualties,” the senior administration official said. Biden also asked for analysis on the ramifications, in the region and beyond, of launching a missile strike in the center of Kabul., a 60-year-old American civil engineer and Navy veteran who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in January 2020.
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