President Joe Biden announced this Monday night the death of the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, in a drone attack over the weekend in Afghanistana new blow to the terrorist organization.
In a televised appearance from the balcony of the White House Blue Room late Monday, Biden addressed “all those around the world who want to harm EU.”.
“On Saturday, under my orders, USA carried out an airstrike on Kabul, in Afghanistan, which killed the al Qaeda emir, Ayman al Zawahiri“, affirmed the president, who spoke from the White House.
In addition, he assured that his country will always remain alert and ready to act when it comes to defending the security of American citizens.
“Justice has been served and this terrorist leader is gone,” Biden said in a televised address.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was one of the most wanted terrorists in the world for USAwhich promised 25 million dollars for any information that would allow him to be arrested.
Who is Al-Zawahiri?
One of the last times Al Zawahiri appeared in a video before his death was in a recording broadcast by Al Qaeda on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 in EU
In that video, titled “Jerusalem will never be Judaized,” he looked Al Zawahiri dressed in a robe and a long white beard speaking for more than an hour on a wide variety of topics, especially the Palestinian cause.
After the 9/11 attacks, Interpol ordered his search and arrest, under the accusation of terrorist acts in Egypt and of being “one of the heads of Al Qaeda”, and the FBI It put him on its most wanted list with a $25 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
Since then, he has lived in hiding presumably somewhere between Afghanistan y Pakistan and has appeared in videos and recordings broadcast by Islamist pages commenting on current events and recalling their permanent commitment to the fight once morest those they consider enemies of Islam.
During his years of leadership, Al Zawahiri have you seen how Al Qaeda It has moved further and further away from its objectives and a great rival has emerged, the Islamic State (IS) group, born from a split in its organization.
(With information from AFP and EFE)