Biden hopes al-Qaida strike brings comfort to 9\/11 victims<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden is expressing hope that the killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri brings \u201cone more measure of closure\u201d to families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Biden made the comments Monday evening as he confirmed that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Biden says, \u201cJustice has been delivered,\u201d adding, \u201cThis terrorist leader is no more.\u201d He says U.S. intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahri to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding out with his family. The president approved the operation last week and it was carried out Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) \u2014 The doors of jihad opened for Ayman al-Zawahri as a young doctor in a Cairo clinic. That\u2019s when a visitor arrived with a tempting offer: a chance to treat Islamic fighters battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan. With that offer in 1980, al-Zawahri embarked on a life that over three decades took him to the top of the most feared terrorist group in the world, al-Qaida, after the death of Osama bin Laden. At that point, he was already an experienced militant who had sought the overthrow of Egypt\u2019s \u201cinfidel\u201d regime since the age of 15. Al-Zawahri was killed over the weekend by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. He was 71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Biden hopes al-Qaida strike brings comfort to 9\/11 victims WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden is expressing hope that the killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri brings \u201cone more measure of closure\u201d to families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Biden made the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253312,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253311\/revisions\/253312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}