al-Zawahiri

Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-born physician, took over as leader of al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden. He was killed in a U.S. strike.

The death of bin Laden in May 2o11 thrust Zawahiri into the No. 1 position, a role for which, in hindsight, he may not have been ideally suited. “And it is not for the enemy to impose on us the field, place, time and way in which we fight.” He did, however, use the occasion to resurrect his fiery rhetoric from the past, calling once again for a renewal of al-Qaeda’s violent campaigns against enemies everywhere. He launched an ambitious biological weapons program, establishing a laboratory in Afghanistan and dispatching disciples to search for sympathetic scientists as well as lethal strains of anthrax bacteria. Zawahiri made at least one visit to the United States in the 1990s, a brief tour of California mosques under an assumed name to raise money for Muslim charities providing support for Afghan refugees. Three years later, working from al-Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan, he helped oversee the planning of what would become one of history’s most audacious terrorist attacks: the Sept. 11 strikes in New York and Washington. Zawahiri’s steadiness in rendering aid in the face of Soviet bombardment in Afghanistan cemented the doctor’s reputation among the mujahideen, as well as a lifelong friendship with bin Laden. The massive government crackdown that followed landed Zawahiri in prison, along with hundreds of his followers. There, he patched up the wounds of mujahideen who were fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan and crossed paths with a charismatic young Saudi, bin Laden. He remained the terrorist group’s figurehead but failed to prevent the splintering of the Islamist movement in Syria and other conflict zones after 2011. Even as his political views hardened, Zawahiri was pursuing a career in the healing arts, earning a degree in medicine from Cairo University and serving briefly as an army surgeon. Zawahiri had led his own militant group and pioneered a brand of terrorism that prized spectacular attacks and the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians.

A senior US official had told Reuters the US had conducted a successful operation against a 'significant al-Qaida target'

The official added that al-Zawahiri’s family members were present in other parts of the safe house at the time of the strike, were not targeted and were unharmed. The safe house used by al-Zawahiri is now empty.” He had a $25m bounty on his head. The official continued: “Two Hellfire missiles were fired at Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed. The strike was carried out at 9:48pm eastern time on Saturday by an unmanned aerial vehicle. “At the conclusion of the meeting, the president authorised a precise, tailored airstrike on the condition that a strike minimised to the greatest extent possible the risk of civilian casualties,” the official said in a background briefing call.

Zawahiri, quien acababa de cumplir 71 años, seguía siendo un símbolo internacional visible de al Qaeda, once años después de que Estados Unidos matara a ...

El presidente Joe Biden dijo este lunes que el ataque de precisión de este fin de semana contra el líder de Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, fue el resultado de una “persistencia y habilidad extraordinarias” de la comunidad de inteligencia estadounidense. “Nuestra comunidad de inteligencia localizó a Zawahiri a principios de este año: se mudó al centro de Kabul para reunirse con miembros de su familia inmediata”, dijo Biden en un discurso a la nación en horario estelar desde el balcón de la Sala Azul de la Casa Blanca. "Después de considerar cuidadosamente la evidencia clara y convincente de su ubicación, autoricé un ataque de precisión que lo sacaría del campo de batalla de una vez por todas". Biden dice que el ataque contra Zawahiri fue el resultado de una "persistencia y habilidad extraordinarias" de la comunidad de inteligencia Los tuits de Mujahid se publicaron antes de que CNN informara que Estados Unidos atacó y mató con éxito al líder de Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, en un ataque con drones, según múltiples fuentes familiarizadas con el asunto. En una serie de tuits, el portavoz talibán Zabiullah Mujahid dijo: “El 31 de julio se llevó a cabo un ataque aéreo contra una casa residencial en el área de Sherpur de la ciudad de Kabul”. “Durante el fin de semana, Estados Unidos llevó a cabo una operación antiterrorista contra un importante objetivo de Al Qaeda en Afganistán. La operación fue exitosa y no hubo víctimas civiles”, según un alto funcionario de la administración.

He inherited the leadership of al Qaeda when U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden but lacked his predecessor's charisma. August 1, 2022, 7:26 PM.

As a result, the grandest visions of bin Laden and Zawahiri have failed to be realized at all. That split eventually spurred the Iraqi group to declare itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which soon eclipsed al Qaeda with its ferocity and success on the battlefield. Al Qaeda affiliates in places such as Yemen and South Asia remained loyal, while the Islamic State’s international allies lost ground in places including the Egyptian Sinai and Libya, where they briefly controlled significant territory. He also took on new affiliates such as al-Shabab in the Horn of Africa, helping the group to develop explosives to target U.S. aviation. At that point, Zawahiri was left with a scattered group of exiles, who were perpetually short of money and in need of a haven from which to organize. During the 1990s, Zawahiri’s ties with bin Laden and al Qaeda took on greater importance. “The toughest thing about captivity,” he later wrote, “is forcing the mujahid, under the force of torture, to confess about his colleagues, to destroy his movement with his own hands, and offer his and his colleagues’ secrets to the enemy.” After his release in 1984, Zawahiri fled first to Saudi Arabia, where he practiced medicine, and then to Pakistan, where he used his medical skills to help Afghans who were fighting the Soviet invasion of their country. Together, they founded al Qaeda in 1988, with a new focus: to attack the “far enemy”—primarily the United States. A dedicated Islamist revolutionary for most of his life, Zawahiri will be best remembered for leading al Qaeda after U.S. special operations forces killed the group’s more charismatic founder, Osama bin Laden, in 2011. Sadat, however, eventually made peace with Israel and—even worse in the eyes of radicals such as Zawahiri—refused to implement strict Islamic law. A dedicated Islamist revolutionary for most of his life, Zawahiri will be best remembered for leading al Qaeda after U.S. special operations forces killed the group’s more charismatic founder, Osama bin Laden, in 2011.

Alexandra Ferguson. (CNN) — A continuación te presentamos un vistazo a la vida del líder abatido de al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Datos personales:.

“Como emir del grupo yihadista al Qaeda, le presento nuestra lealtad”, dice la voz de un hombre, que parece ser la de Zawahiri 13 de mayo de 2018: en respuesta al traslado de la embajada estadounidense de Tel Aviv a Jerusalén por parte del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, Zawahiri llama en un mensaje de video a la resistencia de los palestinos y a una yihad contra Estados Unidos. 5 de febrero de 2019: se publica el discurso de Zawahiri “El camino de la salvación”. En el video, Zawahiri insta a sus partidarios a unirse contra los enemigos, incluidos los musulmanes chiíes, los estadounidenses, los rusos, los franceses y los chinos. 5 de abril de 2022: en un inusual mensaje de video, Zawahiri elogia a una estudiante musulmana india de la que se burló una multitud por usar un hiyab en Karnataka, India. 1 de agosto de 2022: Estados Unidos anuncia que llevó a cabo una operación antiterrorista contra un importante objetivo de al Qaeda en Afganistán, donde se presume que fue abatido. Agosto de 2015: una persona que dice ser Zawahiri afirma en una grabación de audio que al Qaeda está alineada con el nuevo líder de los talibanes, el mulá Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. Septiembre de 2015: Zawahiri publica mensajes de audio en los que sugiere que al Qaeda e ISIS deberían unificarse, aunque declara que el califato establecido por el Estado Islámico no es legítimo. Mayo de 2016: un hombre que dice ser Zawahiri promete lealtad al nuevo líder talibán, Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, en una declaración de audio publicada recientemente. 1999: Zawahiri es acusado de los atentados de 1998 contra las embajadas de Estados Unidos en Kenya y Tanzania. Recibe una sentencia de muerte, en ausencia, de un tribunal egipcio, por un supuesto complot contra los intereses estadounidenses en Albania. Diciembre de 2001: la esposa de Zawahiri y tres de sus hijos mueren en un ataque estadounidense contra la residencia de la familia en Afganistán. 8 de junio de 2011: se publica un video de Zawahiri elogiando a Bin Laden. Junio de 2011: un funcionario antiterrorista estadounidense declara a CNN que cree que Zawahiri es el nuevo líder de al Qaeda. Octubre de 2012: Zawahiri elogia el secuestro de Warren Weinstein, un ciudadano estadounidense en Pakistán en un video publicado en sitios web yihadistas. 6 de agosto de 1998: se envía un fax del grupo de Zawahiri a un periódico egipcio en el que se declara que la Yihad Islámica egipcia busca vengarse de Estados Unidos por la detención de varios de sus miembros. Década de 1970: Zawahiri y la Yihad Islámica egipcia trabajan para derrocar al presidente de Egipto Anwar Sadat y establecer un Estado islámico. Década de 1980: se une a los muyahidines que luchan contra las fuerzas soviéticas que ocupan Afganistán. 1981: Zawahiri se encuentra entre los cientos de sospechosos detenidos tras el asesinato de Sadat. No es acusado en relación con el asesinato, pero es condenado a tres años de prisión por posesión de armas.

Al-Zawahiri was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11, and led the organization after bin Laden was killed in 2011. He died in a U.S. drone strike in ...

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Al Zawahiri fue el sustituto de Osama bin Laden tras su muerte en 2011 en una operación estadounidense en Pakistán, y era uno de los terroristas más buscados.

� EFE 2022. Al Zawahiri fue el sustituto de Osama bin Laden tras su muerte en 2011 en una operación estadounidense en Pakistán, y era uno de los terroristas más buscados. Washington, 1 ago (EFE).- Estados Unidos mató al líder de Al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, en una operación aérea en Afganistán, informaron medios de comunicación estadounidenses que citaron a funcionarios del Gobierno.

El egipcio de 71 años había quedado al frente de la organización terrorista tras la muerte de Osama bin Laden.

Autoridades dijeron que al Zawahiri estaba en el balcón de una casa en Kabul, Afganistán, cuando un dron le disparó dos misiles. Murieron 224 personas y más de 4.500 resultaron heridas. "Tales acciones son una repetición de las experiencias fallidas de los últimos 20 años y van en contra de los intereses de Estados Unidos, Afganistán y la región", agregó el vocero. Estados Unidos tardó una década en localizar y matar a Bin Laden. Después de eso, al Zawahiri asumió el liderazgo de al Qaeda. A Al Zawahiri se lo identificaba a menudo como "la mano derecha de Bin Laden" y el jefe ideológico de al Qaeda. Estados Unidos mató a Ayman al Zawahiri, el líder de al Qaeda.

Ayman al-Zawahiri "carved a trail of murder and violence" against Americans, US President Joe Biden says.

But beyond the question of what this might mean, if anything, for his weak approval ratings, there's a bigger strategic one. Zawahiri took over al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. A new al-Qaeda leader will no doubt emerge, but he will likely have even less influence than his predecessor. However, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are long-time allies and US officials said the Taliban were aware of Zawahiri's presence in Kabul. Mr Biden said he had given the final approval for the "precision strike" on the 71-year-old al-Qaeda leader after months of planning. The US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed.

Justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more,” said President Joe Biden.

“The strike that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri is a major success of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts. In December 2020, Brookings Institution terrorism expert Daniel Byman said one of the big questions of his leadership was how he would bequeath control to the next al Qaeda leader. “The Biden administration is paying that same regime millions.” The United States has insisted that the Taliban not allow Afghan soil to be used by terrorist groups like al Qaeda — leading to questions about what Zawahri’s presence in Kabul says about ties between the Taliban and al Qaeda. “This year, we identified that Zawahri’s family — his wife, his daughter, and her children — relocated to a safe house in Kabul,” the official said. Some observers thought Zawahri was potentially somewhere in the teeming Pakistani city of Karachi. The Zawahri killing gives the administration some good news to trumpet ahead of a grim anniversary. Zawahri was an Egyptian who took over al Qaeda after the U.S. killed its longtime leader bin Laden in 2011. A physician, he founded Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant group that merged with al Qaeda in the late 1990s. The strike, carried out by a CIA-operated Air Force drone, occurred at 6:18 a.m. Sunday local time in Kabul as the al Qaeda leader stood on the balcony of his house, the official said. “The strike was ultimately carried out at 9:48 p.m. Eastern on July 30 by an unmanned aerial vehicle. Minutes before that address, a senior administration official spoke to reporters on how Zawahri was hunted, found and then killed.

The confirmation came more than an hour after the Taliban rulers in Kabul said a missile attack on Sunday against a residential compound in the Afghan capital ...

The report further concluded that al-Qaida leader al-Zawahiri, long rumored to be in ill health or dying, was "alive and communicating freely." U.S. special forces later located and killed bin Laden deep inside neighboring Pakistan in May 2011. He denounced the strike as a "blatant violation of international principles and the Doha agreement." The confirmation came more than an hour after the Taliban rulers in Kabul said a missile attack on Sunday against a residential compound in the Afghan capital was the work of an American drone. The United States conducted a rare counterterrorism operation over the weekend against a "significant" al-Qaida target in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official said Monday. "The operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties," the official said without giving further details.

Varios reportes indican que Estados Unidos ha matado al líder de Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, de 71 años, en un ataque con drones. Aquí los detalles.

Al-Zawahiri ayudó a planear ataques a varias embajadas estadounidenses, al USS Cole en Yemen y al ataque del 11 de septiembre. Después de su liberación, se dirigió a Pakistán, donde, como médico, trató a combatientes muyahidines heridos que lucharon contra la ocupación soviética de Afganistán. Ahí conoció a bin Laden. “Dejamos en claro nuevamente esta noche que no importa cuánto tiempo tome, no importa dónde se esconda, Estados Unidos lo encontrará y lo sacará”, dijo el presidente.

The Al Qaeda leader was reportedly killed in Afghanistan by a U.S. drone strike.

Zawahiri was always in the background, and many people who studied Al Qaeda thought that bin Laden’s death would bring the curtain down on their creation. In Al Qaeda, he provided the direction, and bin Laden supplied the money. In 2002, when I profiled Ayman al-Zawahiri for The New Yorker, he was called “ the man behind bin Laden.” But since bin Laden was killed by American special forces, in 2011, Zawahiri has been Al Qaeda’s leader.

President Biden last year committed to the American people that, following the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the United States would continue to protect our ...

We were able to do so in this instance — and will be positioned to do so going forward — as a result of the skill and professionalism of our intelligence and counterterrorism community colleagues, for whom the President and I are deeply grateful. The world is a safer place following the death of Zawahiri, and the United States will continue to act resolutely against those who would threaten our country, our people, or our allies and partners. They also betrayed the Afghan people and their own stated desire for recognition from and normalization with the international community.

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri's death at the hands of a US drone strike brings an end to his "trail of murder and violence against American citizens," ...

"According to the United Nations, he'd released kind of an unprecedented number of videos. At one point, he narrowly escaped a US onslaught in the rugged, mountainous Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, an attack that left his wife and children dead. "So he was becoming more prominent. "People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. "We are working with brother bin Laden," he said in announcing the merger of his terror group in May 1998. He proudly endorsed Sadat's assassination after the Egyptian leader made peace with Israel.

The success of the operation is a testament to the CIA's unrelenting focus on terrorism over the past 20 years.

The success of the operation is a testament to the unrelenting focus at the CIA on terrorism over the past 20 years; it never became an on-again-off-again thing. The fact that he was killed in the heart of Kabul shows that Taliban leaders are once again welcoming jihadist groups, or at least al-Qaeda, contradicting their counterterrorism pledges. So his death does not dramatically impact the leadership of al-Qaeda, which is now so widely distributed.

Ayman Al-Zawahiri fue eliminado tras un ataque aéreo de las fuerzas de EEUU en Kabul, Afganistán. Tras ser el lugarteniente de Osama bin Laden, luego se...

Posteriormente, al-Zawahiri se convirtió en lugarteniente y luego en sucesor de bin Laden al mando de Al Qaeda. MIAMI, Florida - Ayman al-Zawahiri se convirtió en líder de Al Qaeda tras la desaparición de Osama Bin Laden. Su vínculo con bin Laden se forjó a fines de la década de 1980, cuando al-Zawahri supuestamente escondió al millonario saudita en las cuevas de Afganistán durante los bombardeos soviéticos.

Zawahiri helped found Islamic Jihad, the group that assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. Al-Qaida was never able to regain its status as the pre ...

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President Biden said the death of Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden, means Afghanistan can no longer “become a terrorist safe haven.”

He remained as a figurehead but failed to prevent the splintering of the Islamist movement in Syria and other conflict zones after 2011. Al-Qaeda hasn’t carried out any major terrorist attacks in the United States or Europe in recent years, following bombings that killed 52 people in London in 2005. Some attackers were inspired by al-Qaeda, such as a Saudi military trainee who killed three American sailors at a U.S. base in Florida in December 2019. A United Nations report in July estimated there were up to 400 al-Qaeda fighters remaining in Afghanistan. Security experts say the operation demonstrates that the United States is still able to carry out precision strikes in Afghanistan after last year’s withdrawal of troops on the ground. Today, though, the group is splintered, with branches and affiliates spanning the globe from West Africa to India. The question remains whether those groups will focus on local conflicts or coalesce for more global ambitions. Zawahiri merged his own Egyptian militant group with al-Qaeda in the 1990s. The strike is the latest in a string of successful U.S. operations against al-Qaeda and Islamic State leaders. Analysts say that in the past, al-Qaeda has adjusted to the loss of leaders, with new figures emerging in their place. In his later years, Zawahiri largely shied from public view, presiding over al-Qaeda at a time of decline, with most of the group’s founding figures dead or in hiding. When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 1996, it gave al-Qaeda the sanctuary that enabled it to run training camps and plot attacks, including 9/11. President Biden said in an address to the nation Monday that Zawahiri’s death — after he evaded capture for decades — sent a clear message: “No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out.”

El ataque con drones que mató a Ayman al-Zawahiri fue producto de meses de planificación secreta por parte del presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, ...

Cinco días después, se dispararon dos misiles Hellfire contra el balcón de la casa de seguridad en Kabul a las 6:18 a.m. hora local. El 1 de julio, reunió a funcionarios clave de seguridad nacional en la Sala de Situación de la Casa Blanca para recibir información sobre una operación propuesta. Biden cuestionó cómo el sol podría iluminar la casa, sus materiales de construcción y cómo el clima podría afectar cualquier operación, dijo el funcionario. Biden estaba "profundamente comprometido con la sesión informativa y sumergido en la información de inteligencia", dijo un alto funcionario. Volvió a presionar a un "nivel granular", dijo el funcionario, preguntando sobre cualquier opción adicional que pudiera minimizar las bajas civiles. Analistas independientes de todo el gobierno participaron en la identificación de los otros ocupantes de la casa. Biden, quien tuvo que aislarse debido a una infección de covid-19 durante las deliberaciones finales y la autorización del ataque, salió a proclamar el éxito en un balcón de la Casa Blanca el lunes. Las autoridades estadounidenses habían estado al tanto de una red que apoyaba al líder terrorista en la capital afgana durante meses y habían identificado a su esposa, hija e hijos a través de múltiples flujos de inteligencia. El ataque con drones estadounidenses que mató a al-Zawahiri en su balcón en el centro de Kabul fue producto de meses de planificación altamente secreta por parte de Biden y un estrecho círculo de sus principales asesores. "En el futuro con los talibanes, seguiremos haciéndolos responsables de sus acciones. "La gente del mundo ya no debe temer al asesino perverso y decidido. Ninguno murió, según la Casa Blanca.

How two thunderous blasts led the BBC's Lyse Doucet to Ayman al-Zawahiri's villa in the "town of thieves".

Was this a reply rehearsed in advance, an echo of the Taliban's official statement? We don't know who they are." Kabulis called it Choorpur, the town of thieves. The Taliban also accuse the US of violating their deal in their attack against a residential neighbourhood of Kabul. A statement from a Taliban spokesman warned that "repeating such actions will damage the existing opportunities". But now it emerges that he was a guest of the Taliban leadership, living in that villa smack in the centre of Kabul and said to belong to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting Taliban interior minister, who is under US terrorism sanctions. They don't speak the local languages.

US president says 'terrorist leader is no more' after bin Laden successor is killed in Kabul.

The limited achievements of its affiliate in Yemen, once seen as a major potential threat to the region and the west, must have been a disappointment. He was spotted on a balcony on numerous occasions over several months and continued to produce al-Qaida propaganda videos, some of which may yet appear posthumously. Our thoughts today are with the loved ones of all of his victims. While Monday’s news was a “mission accomplished” moment, simmering tensions over Taiwan show how the US government is now building a new national security machine to challenge China’s rising power. What will be the strategy of the new leader? An oath of loyalty is sworn not to the group, but to the individual. Instead, links with groups around the world were reinforced and efforts made to expand through gradually winning support from communities on the ground. Though al-Qaida was known for its innovative empowerment of local cells, the man at the top of the hierarchy has real authority. He has to stay alive, communicate despite considerable logistic challenges, deal with regimes such as the Taliban and formulate a clear idea of what his subordinates should be doing. The forces of freedom will bring you to justice. Daskalakis, director of the agency’s HIV prevention division and a national expert on issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community, previously helped lead New York City’s Covid-19 response. The world is a safer place today.

Biden asegura que el ataque llevó meses de preparación y no ha causado “víctimas civiles”. “Los terroristas que amenazan Estados Unidos deben saber que los ...

El ataque que ha acabado con su vida dos décadas después de que Washington lo pusiera en su punto de mira supone un triunfo para la Administración de Biden en materia antiterrorista. Alcanzó fama internacional tras los ataques del 11-S. “Esos 19 hermanos salieron y entregaron sus almas a Alá todopoderoso, y el Dios todopoderoso les ha concedido la victoria que estamos disfrutando ahora”, dijo Al-Zawahiri en un mensaje grabado en video y publicado en abril de 2002. Al-Zawahiri asumió el liderazgo de Al Qaeda después de la muerte de Osama bin Laden, liquidado en mayo de 2011 en la localidad de Abottabad ( en el norte de Pakistán) por un comando especial del Ejército estadounidense, y ante la atenta mirada en directo desde la Casa Blanca del entonces presidente, Barack Obama, y del que fue su vicepresidente, Joe Biden. Hasta su muerte el domingo, Al-Zawahiri estaba en lo más alto de las listas de los terroristas buscados por Washington. El FBI ofrecía 25 millones de dólares por información que condujera a su captura. Tras su paso por las secciones El Viajero, Tentaciones y El País Semanal, ha sido redactor jefe de Domingo, Ideas, Cultura y Babelia. Estados Unidos ha matado en un ataque con drones llevado a cabo en la madrugada del pasado domingo en Kabul a Ayman al-Zawahiri, líder de Al Qaeda, organización en la que sucedió a Osama Bin Laden y “el terrorista más buscado del mundo”. Así lo ha confirmado este lunes por la tarde el presidente Joe Biden en una comparecencia televisiva. El terrorista caído, médico de profesión y con un pasado de poeta, proviene de una distinguida familia egipcia con pedigrí político e intelectual. La operación de este fin de semana demuestra que Estados Unidos tiene capacidad para efectuar operaciones antiterroristas de gran impacto pese a no tener presencia sobre el terreno. Para el Pentágono era un objetivo declarado volver a descabezar a Al Qaeda. Le alcanzaron dos misiles de alta precisión, que no afectaron a la estructura de la vivienda. La operación “no causó más víctimas civiles”, ha añadido. Biden, que está confinado de nuevo desde el sábado pasado por una recaída por coronavirus, ha hablado por televisión desde la Casa Blanca: “Hemos administrado justicia”, ha sentenciado desde una de las terrazas del complejo con los monumentos de Washington y Jefferson de fondo. El presidente aprobó que se actuara contra él la semana pasada. Los terroristas que amenazan Estados Unidos deben saber que los encontraremos y los liquidaremos”.

US President Biden has announced that a precision drone-attack by the US in downtown Kabul has killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

It was here that he was killed by ‘hellfire’ missiles from a US drone. “Now justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more,” American President Biden said during a press address Monday. “No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out.” United States President Joe Biden has announced that a precision drone-attack by the US in downtown Kabul has killed Al-Qaeda Chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who had helped orchestrate the September 11 attacks.

Both Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden escaped U.S. forces in Afghanistan in late 2001, and Zawahiri's whereabouts had long been a mystery.

In the wake of the strike on Zawahiri, the senior official said the administration warned the Taliban not to take any steps that would harm Mark Frerichs, a 60-year-old American civil engineer and Navy veteran who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in January 2020. The intelligence community had tracked Zawahiri to the safe house and spent months confirming his identity and developing a “pattern of life,” tracking his movements and behavior, the official said. In May 2020, the FBI offered a $1 million reward for information leading to his release or rescue. Both the United Nations and the U.S. intelligence community have assessed that the operational threat from al-Qaeda is now centered in its African and Middle East affiliates. In particular, he was overshadowed by the rise of the Islamic State and its bloody dominion for several years over parts of Syria and Iraq. Zawahiri was indicted on a charge of the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, attacks that first highlighted the growing threat from al-Qaeda. Both bin Laden and Zawahiri escaped U.S. forces in Afghanistan in late 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, and Zawahiri’s whereabouts had long been a mystery. The agreement leading to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan included a Taliban pledge not to allow terrorist groups with international aims to operate within their territory and to break all relations with those groups. He said that Shirpur was tightly controlled by the Taliban, and that anyone occupying a house or shop had to provide detailed documents and information. The house reportedly occupied by Zawahiri and his family appeared to be located in the secure section, behind a large bank and several guarded alleys lined with government compounds. We hadn’t heard anything like it since the old government was in charge,” said Haq Asghar, a retired army officer chatting outside a hardware shop. The strike occurred at 9:48 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters on the operation.

The U.S. targeted the top al-Qaida leader, showing it could track down and strike against a hard-to-find extremist figure even in a country where the U.S. ...

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(CNN Español) — Ayman al-Zawahiri, líder de al Qaeda, fue abatido el sábado en Afganistán tras un ataque con drones de Estados Unidos, según dijo el presidente ...

El 25 de julio, mientras se aislaba con covid-19 en la residencia de la Casa Blanca, Biden volvió a reunir a su equipo para recibir una sesión informativa final. Los funcionarios en esa sala eran el director de la CIA, Bill Burns; la directora de inteligencia nacional, Avril Haines; el asesor de seguridad nacional, Jake Sullivan, y su adjunto, Jon Finer; y la asesora de seguridad nacional, Liz Sherwood Randall. En esos momentos fue cuando los funcionarios explicaron todo el plan a Biden con ayuda de la casa a escala. Cabe recalcar que EE.UU. abatió al líder de al Qaeda mientras estaba en su balcón. Al tiempo que se monitoreaban las actividades en la casa, comenzó un esfuerzo en completo secreto para analizar la construcción y la estructura del edificio, con miras a desarrollar una operación para acabar con el objetivo terrorista número 1 del mundo. Después, el 1 de julio, reunió a funcionarios clave de seguridad nacional en la Sala de Situación de la Casa Blanca para recibir información sobre una operación propuesta. Las autoridades de EE.UU. habían estado al tanto de una red que apoyaba al líder terrorista en Kabul durante meses y habían identificado a su esposa, hija e hijos a través de múltiples flujos de inteligencia. El ataque fue producto de meses de planificación secreta entre Biden y un estrecho círculo de sus principales asesores.

Tras meses de planeación, EE.UU. abatió el sábado 30 de julio a Ayman al-Zawahiri, líder de al Qaeda. Te contamos cómo se dio todo el proceso.

- En mayo y junio, Biden estaba al tanto de los preparativos. Cabe recalcar que EE.UU. abatió al líder de al Qaeda mientras estaba en su balcón. - El 25 de julio, mientras se aislaba con covid-19 en la residencia de la Casa Blanca, Biden volvió a reunir a su equipo para recibir una sesión informativa final. - El presidente de EE.UU. comentó que la comunidad de inteligencia estadounidense localizó a al-Zawahiri a principios de este año. Biden fue informado por primera vez en abril sobre la ubicación de al-Zawahiri en una casa de seguridad en Kabul. - Tras encontrar la ubicación de al-Zawahiri, se llevaron a cabo diversos preparativos, entre ellos la construcción de un modelo a pequeña escala de la casa de seguridad de líder de al Qaeda, construido por funcionarios de inteligencia y colocado dentro de la Sala de Situación de la Casa Blanca para que Biden lo examinara mientras debatía sus opciones. Biden señaló que el ataque del sábado para abatir al líder de al Qaeda fue el resultado de una "persistencia y habilidad extraordinarias" de la comunidad de inteligencia.

Following the 2011 death of bin Laden, al-Zawahiri hid in the remote regions of Pakistan while carrying out the work of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network.

According to data from the Global Terrorism Database, Al-Qaeda was largely inactive in terms of terror incidents since 2014. The leader of AQI, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in 2006, but the group's activities only increased over time, until 2014. "This would help him prove his bona fides and separate the leader from the mass of more local figures who are all vying for recruits and money." According to the report, he would need to shore up support among affiliates in Yemen, which has an ongoing civil war. Al-Zawahiri also called on militants to denounce the Islamic State militant group, which took control of a large swath of territory in Iraq and Syria that peaked in 2017, and to instead rally around the Taliban in Afghanistan, who would go on to retake control of the country in 2021. While the killing of al-Zawahiri is a boost for Biden, the activities of the terror group had petered out in the last few years, writes data editor Rob Minto. Al-Zawahiri had been running Al-Qaeda since. Known as "Glasses," for his trademark eyewear, al-Zawahiri commanded the respect of Islamic militants and was also involved in the 2005 bombing of the London Underground and in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, in 2007. "Now, justice has been delivered," Biden said. An Egyptian-born surgeon, al-Zawahiri was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. The bombings killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and wounded more than 4,500 people, according to the FBI. Despite having a lower profile than bin Laden, who was killed by Navy SEALs in May 2011, al-Zawahiri continued to lead the terrorist organization and maintained its presence in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also supported Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq. Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by U.S. forces in a strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, delivering a long-sought blow to the terrorist network.

La CIA anunció que un ataque con dron mató al líder de Al Qaeda, un viejo aliado de Osama bin Laden que fue considerado uno de los cerebros de los ataques ...

En junio, un informe de Naciones Unidas advertía que Al Qaeda había encontrado “mayor libertad de acción” en Afganistán desde que los talibanes tomaron el poder. Muchos expertos en contraterrorismo lo consideraban la columna vertebral intelectual de Al Qaeda. Al Zawahiri era el médico personal de Bin Laden. Los hombres se convirtieron en aliados, y unieron sus recursos para crear un instrumento de asesinato masivo que perjudicara a las potencias occidentales y a los gobiernos que apoyaban. El legado de sus esfuerzos dio un giro incierto hace 11 años tras la muerte de Bin Laden en una incursión de un equipo SEAL de la Marina estadounidense en Pakistán. Muchos creían que Al Qaeda no podría sobrevivir a su ausencia. “Tomé la decisión de que, tras 20 años de guerra, EE. UU. ya no necesitaba miles de botas sobre el terreno en Afganistán para proteger a Estados Unidos de los terroristas que pretenden hacernos daño”, dijo. “Todo el mundo está ocupado en encontrar un pedazo de pan para sí mismo”. Al Zawahiri fue abatido por la CIA en un ataque con drones a primera hora de la mañana en la capital afgana, Kabul, según informaron funcionarios estadounidenses. Nadie más murió en el ataque, ni miembros de su familia ni civiles cercanos, dijeron los funcionarios estadounidenses. Esto es lo que sabemos hasta ahora sobre el atentado, quién era Al Zawahiri y las consecuencias de su asesinato. La operación para matar a Al Zawahiri llevaba meses en marcha. La presencia de Al Zawahiri en Kabul no hará más que poner en duda el compromiso de los talibanes con su parte del acuerdo de paz. El informe señalaba que los líderes de Al Qaeda posiblemente vivían en Kabul, y que el aumento de las declaraciones públicas de Al Zawahiri sugería que era capaz de liderar con mayor eficacia tras la toma del poder. Estados Unidos anunció el lunes que había matado a Aymán al Zawahiri en un ataque con dron en Afganistán, poniendo fin a 21 años de persecución del líder terrorista que fue decisivo en los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001 y que asumió el mando de Al Qaeda tras la muerte de Osama bin Laden.

Once the news cycle moves on, it will be business as usual for the US, the Taliban and even al-Qaeda itself.

The current US president and those in his administration are undoubtedly aware of this. We are likely to witness the same between the US and the Taliban after al-Zawahiri’s killing. And he knew that he did not need to be one to ensure the group’s expansion and longevity. The set of ideas that guide the group existed long before al-Qaeda, and will undoubtedly continue to be supported by some in zones of failing governance or alienation after its elimination. During al-Zawahiri’s tenure, al-Qaeda adopted an expansion model which can best be described as “franchising”. Under his command, the group expanded its reach from Mali to Kashmir with the addition of numerous largely autonomous and financially self-sufficient branches or “franchises”. As these branches are able to continue operations without much intervention from the central command, the death of any leader is unlikely to cause the network to disintegrate. However, it is unlikely that it will lead to any significant change or mark a turning point in the regional let alone global status quo.

After hunting for him for 21 years, U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri over the weekend with a drone strike targeting him at a safe house in ...

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