The American president must express himself at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 am in Paris) on a “successful anti -terrorist operation”. Ayman al-Zawahiri is considered the brain of September 11. He had taken control of the terrorist organization when the death of Osama bin Laden.
Le Monde with AFP
The target of the “successful anti-terrorist operation” in Afghanistan announced on Monday 1 er August by a senior American official is the chief of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, killed during the Weekend during a drone strike, according to American media.
He was considered the brain of the September 11, 2001 attacks which had made nearly 3,000 victims. Zawahiri, of Egyptian nationality, had taken control of the terrorist organization on the death of Osama bin Laden, himself killed during a land operation led by Washington in Pakistan.
“The operation was successful and did not have any civilian victim,” said this senior official to journalists. It would have taken place in Kabul, the Afghan capital, and was allegedly led by the American army, but by a CIA drone, the US external information, who did not wish to comment on the news. The State Department offered up to $ 25 million of award for any information leading to the arrest or the conviction of the chief of al-Qaida.
a year after the chaotic withdrawal of Afghanistan
President Joe Biden must speak at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 am in Paris) about a “successful anti -terrorist operation”, according to the White House, which has not provided additional details. This announcement comes almost a year after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan from the American forces, which had allowed the Taliban to regain control of the country twenty years later.
The United States had also announced in mid-July that he killed the head of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Maher al-Agal, during a drone strike, an operation which had “weakened considerably EI capacity to prepare, finance and conduct its operations in the region, “according to an American army spokesperson.