The airstrike was carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday.
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in an airstrike carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday. Al-Zawahiri had taken over the reigns of the terror group since the death of Osama Bin Laden during a Seal Team Six operation in 2011.
The 71-year-old was on FBI’s most wanted list as one of the masterminds behind the deadly September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
reported that the Al-Zawahiri was a trained doctor who got into the terror activities at the age of 15 after he formed an underground cell called Jamaat al-Jihad, or the Jihad Group, with an intention to overthrow Egypt’s government for an Islamic theocracy. The same group was involved in the assassination of Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat in October 1981.
