
U.S. k#lls Osama bin Laden’s successor & al-Qaeda leader in a drone strike in Afghanistan.
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A US drone strike in Afghanistan has k#lled Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who became the leader of al-Qaeda following the k#lling of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011.
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Confirming the report, President Joe Biden of the US in a post on Instagram described the de@th of al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, as a huge blow to the Al Qaeda terr@rist network, masterminds of the September 11 2001 att@cks on U.S.
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Justice has been delivered and this terr@rist leader is no more,” Biden said in a special televised address from outside the White House.
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Al-Zawahiri, 71, who is said to be one of the world’s most de@dliest terr@rist, is an Egyptian surgeon with a $25m bounty on his head for helping to mastermind the 9/11 att@cks in which four civilian aircrafts were hijacked and used to cr#sh the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, the Pentagon, k#lling about 3,000 people.