Over a decade ago, when Navy SEALs raided Osama bin Laden's compound and killed the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, Ayman al Zawahiri assumed the reigns of the al Qaeda terrorist network.
Al Zawahiri, who has long been shrouded in mystery and previously had served as al Qaeda's No. 2, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan on Saturday, President Joe Biden announced on Monday. Biden said al Zawahiri was in Kabul to reunite with his family members."Justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more. People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer," Biden said in his address from the White House.
Last year, after Taliban forces toppled the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan, video surfaced that appeared to show the al Qaeda leader alive and commemorating the carnage his terrorist group inflicted on 9/11, when roughly 3,000 people were killed. The timing of the video came weeks after the Taliban returned to power.
Al Zawahiri was born in Egypt in 1951 to a well-off family. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist, as a teenager and began plotting to overthrow Egypt’s government in favor of establishing a Muslim theocracy, according to the Washington Post. During his youthful machinations, he cultivated a band of followers that eventually became known as the Jamaat al Jihad.
Following his release, al Zawahiri is believed to have engaged in multiple terrorist schemes across the world, including in Pakistan, Sudan, and Afghanistan. During the 1980s, he made multiple trips to Afghanistan, where he would eventually collaborate with bin Laden, according to the Department of Defense. The two collaborated on efforts to subvert the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
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