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    Biden declares ‘justice delivered’ after drone strike kills al-Qaida leader

    by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Aug 01, 2022 3 minutes
    Osama bin Laden, right, and top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, left, on television, April 15, 2002, Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

    WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Monday that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, a key plotter of the Sept. 11 attacks, was killed in a CIA drone strike he ordered targeting the terrorist leader in Afghanistan.

    One of the world’s most wanted terrorists, al-Zawahri helped oversee the 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, working closely with former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, and had led the group over the last decade since bin Laden’s death.

    The 71-year-old Egyptian was killed in a drone strike at 6:48 p.m. local time Saturday at a residential location

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