good evening, expecting a background briefing from the nst in about 30 minutes time and just now learning as you mentioned that over the weekend the u.s. carried out a successful counterterrorism operation, a drone strike against what it calls a significant al qaeda target in afghanistan, two intelligence sources tell fox news al qaeda leader zawahiri was the target of the strike and was killed. no civilian casualties and the target was a residential home in afghanistan. age 70 was the leader of al qaeda and usama bin laden s right hand responsible for the 9/11 attacks, the egyptian doctor fled to al pakistan during the 1980s after being jailed twice and asia for the member of islamic egyptian overthrowing the government of egypt and a former surgeon, the personal physician and closest confidant and became the nominal leader of al qaeda after bin laden was killed in 2011. since september 11th attacks the u.s. state department has offered a u.s. $25 million reward for inform