![]() Kirby says al-Zawahiri was "actively engaged in urging his followers to plot and plan attacks" including potentially in the U.S. was able to gather detailed intelligence and carry out a long-range strike, at least in this instance. ability to do with the military gone, the embassy closed and intelligence being much more difficult to gather. was pulling out a year ago, American military leaders said they would continue to keep tabs on Afghanistan from "over the horizon." is providing humanitarian assistance, Afghanistan is painfully low on food, medicine and other basics.Īs the U.S. Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, who was in Kabul at the time of the Sunday strike, says residents were awoken by the sound of at least one early-morning explosion and later shared images of a multi-story house with the windows blown out.Īsia Read What The Taliban Told NPR About Their Plans For Afghanistan Zawahiri presented that kind of a threat and that's why we took him out." Zawahiri's hideout suggests ties between al-Qaida and Taliban We also said that the plan isn't to hit every single al-Qaida terrorist with a missile, it's to make sure that we are defeating those threats to our homeland, to the American people. ![]() "We said a year ago that we knew al-Qaida was starting to move back, in small numbers, into Afghanistan," Kirby added. will not let Afghanistan become a safe haven for terrorists. John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House's National Security Council, told Morning Edition that the strike deals a significant blow to al-Qaida's operations, and proves that the U.S. says it killed al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for an interview that was published in November 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
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