The Senate Intelligence Committee was briefed on the strike, Sen. claim that it still has what it calls “over the horizon” capability when it comes to intelligence on terrorist activity in Afghanistan, despite no longer having combat troops there. The Zawahri killing gives the administration some good news to trumpet ahead of a grim anniversary. Frank McKenzie, then CENTCOM chief, told reporters last year. 29 strike based on intelligence that the aid worker was a member of the Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch and was planning an “imminent” attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport, Gen. drone strike there mistakenly killed an innocent aid worker and nine members of his family just days before the U.S. strike in Kabul in almost a year, when a U.S. 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. was forced to carry out a major evacuation of more than 100,000 people trying to flee the country after an astonishingly quick takeover by Taliban militants. The withdrawal devolved into a chaotic situation - and one of Biden’s worst stretches as president - as the U.S. The announcement comes nearly a year after the United States finished withdrawing from Afghanistan, the country it invaded in 2001 following the Sept. He had been indicted for his suspected role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. A physician, he founded Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant group that merged with al Qaeda in the late 1990s. killed its longtime leader bin Laden in 2011. Zawahri was an Egyptian who took over al Qaeda after the U.S. Two hellfire missiles were fired at Zawahri.… Only Zawahri was killed in the strike,” the official said, saying there’s no evidence of any other loss of life. Eastern on July 30 by an unmanned aerial vehicle. “The strike was ultimately carried out at 9:48 p.m.

CIA Director William Burns, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and national security adviser Jake Sullivan, among others, were in that meeting. “The president received updates on the development of the target throughout May and June,” said the senior official, and on July 1 Biden received a briefing on a proposed operation while in the White House Situation Room.

“We then identified Zawahri at the location in Kabul through layering multiple streams of intelligence.” The terrorist leader’s habit of standing on his balcony allowed the U.S. “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.

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