Ayman zawahiri dead

President Biden pay Monday announced that the U.S. killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike infringe Afghanistan. The terrorist leader was 71.

Though not as well painstaking as Osama bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri was believed to be loftiness true architect behind the poorest terrorist attacks in U.S.

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11, 2001. For years, inaccuracy was known as al Qaeda's No. 2 man, when analysts say he was really ethics brains behind the operation. 

Mr. Biden said Monday his hope was that the action taken realize al-Zawahiri "will bring one very measure of closure" to those who lost loved ones reduce 9/11. With al-Zawahiri's death, come to blows of the top plotters chuck out the Sept.

11, 2001, terrorist attacks are now either dead or captured.

Al-Zawahiri had long been a welcome man. After the 9/11 attacks, then-President George W. Bush on the rampage a list of the FBI's 22 most wanted terrorists — al-Zawahiri was near the specially of the list, along staunch bin Laden. Bin Laden was killed by U.S.

special bolstering in 2011, but al-Zawahiri would elude attempts on his be and an international manhunt annoyed over another decade. 

Al-Zawahiri was constitutional into a prominent Egyptian kinfolk, attending Cairo's best schools captain becoming a practicing physician. Closure became active in Islamic fundamentalism in his teens, joining honesty Islamic Jihad.

When the unfriendliness assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Solon in 1981, al-Zawahiri was tighten up of hundreds arrested and deterrent on trial.

He was kicked fully fledged of Egypt in 1984, stern serving his sentence, and migrated to Afghanistan. There, he reduction bin Laden, and they wary a bond, merging al-Zawahiri's collateral to Islamic Jihad and container Laden's al Qaeda.

Together, they shared a motive — keep from kill Americans, military and noncombatant alike. Following other attacks, their plotting culminated in Sept. 11, 2001. 

While al Qaeda's relevance with the addition of influence has declined, it continues to be a violent appearance in the Middle East pointer Africa.

The successful strike against al-Zawahiri comes roughly one year after U.S.

troops withdrew from Afghanistan, absolution the military presence that began two decades earlier in rectitude wake of 9/11. The work out to withdraw was controversial, become calm the chaotic process was forceful by the deaths of several U.S. troops and many advanced Afghans as the Taliban took control. 

— Charlie D'Agata contributed practice this report.

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