TALIBAN CLAIM TO HAVE NOT FOUND THE BODY OF AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI

Fri 26 August 2022:

The Taliban declared on Thursday that they had not found body of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s and were still conducting investigations after the US claimed he had been killed in an airstrike in Kabul last month.

After Osama bin Laden’s murder, Zawahiri, an Egyptian who had served as both his personal physician and a close friend, was 71 years old and had become a prominent international icon of the terrorist organization. He was descended from a prominent Egyptian family.

US sources claim that in July, a drone-launched missile killed Zawahiri. Since Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy SEALS more than ten years ago, this was al Qaeda’s biggest setback.

Al-Zawahiri, 71, and bin Laden were indicted by the US Justice Department as conspirators in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.

The declaration that Osama bin Laden’s life had ended in 2011 received an overwhelmingly positive domestic reaction and helped President Barack Obama gain re-election the following year.

On the other hand, the reaction to the announcement of the death of al-Zawahiri was comparatively subdued.

The US security establishment no longer viewed Al Qaeda as the most significant terrorist danger. The organisation has been replaced as a much more severe threat to the world by the Islamic State (IS).

Rabia’a al-Zawahiri, grandfather of Ayman al-Zawahiri, was an imam at Cairo’s al-Azhar University. Abdel Rahman Azzam, his great-uncle, served as the Arab League’s first secretary.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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