Posts Make Unfounded Claims About Death of Al-Qaeda Leader
Quick Take
The U.S. announced it had conducted a drone strike on July 31 killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul. But social media posts make unfounded claims that al-Zawahiri had died in 2020 from asthma. The posts cite an unconfirmed story in a British tabloid, which reported a year later that al-Zawahiri was still alive.
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President Joe Biden the U.S. had longtime al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Zawahiri wasin the U.S., and became the leader of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden’s death in 2011.
