zawhahiri is stomach churning.ch he was the ideological master behind behind the turn of al qaeda andnd groups like that toward indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere, including muslims, all in the name of islamic piety and how he got there, we now, looking back at it, it seems like a straight shot, but if he dropped in at any time of his biography, you wouldn t have known, trained as a doctor, as a surgeon, a respected family in egypt, born and raised in cairo. by the time he was 15 years old he was a committed radical who wantedic to impose islamic theecacy by force all of 15 yearsfo old. when islamic militant disassassinate egypt s president anwar sadat at a military parade in 1981, he was one of hundreds ofe islamic radicals who was tried and imprisoned and tortured for years in egyptian prisons. while there he became an informant, supplying information on hisin comrades, and released fromra prison in egypt in 1948 d even more radical than when he had gone in an
waysin of looking at it. weok just heard from admiral kirby, what we just heard was kind of a positive spin on it, itnd shows that the united stat is stillha capable, that as the taliban goes back on its deal, and clearly it was going back on its deal, or at least elements of the taliban were going back on the deal and welcomed in al qaeda, that they wouldn t be able to get away with it because america has eyes on and has the ability to carry out lethal strikes from the sky. so you can say the policy is working because if there is al qaeda infiltration or presence, the u.s. cana take care of it. but there s another way of looking ater it. it shows how confident and how arrogant one might say the taliban have become, that even after swearing that they would never host al qaeda leaders again, thatqa they would never back and w repeat the past, tha they don t just have an al qaeda leader, they have the al qaeda leader,ae he s hosted right in e center of kabul, he s there for months, and i
and make sure that we had the capacity from an over the horizon perspective, to deal with any threats to the homeland. mr. zawahiri s presence in kabul certainly met that test, because heul has been actively involvedn planning and plotting threats against our homeland going forward. one of the things that the president mentioned tonight int hispr remarks is that zawahiri s been recently making videos, calling for people to attack americans, and to attack u.s. interests. that s right. we ve heard from senior administration officials that it is possible even after his death al enqaeda, or their confederat may release further zawahiri videos and banked ahead of his death, do you anticipate that will pose additional threats and raise the threat level for the united states inat terms of potential terror? it very well could. we could don t know how many videos he record and whether
what happens next here, do you believe, does the administration believe that the taliban knew zawahiri was in kabul, obviously the justification for invading afghanistan in 2001 was that the taliban was providing a safe havenba for the al qaeda oh, ahd of 9/11. did they know that he was back in afghanistan, back in kabul. we know that some senior leaders of the network were aware and we know that from the way that theyd tried to cover things up, over the last 24, 48 hours, and that s really about as far as i can go into this, but we have indications that some of them were aware. look, i mean al qaeda was on the ground in afghanistan, even when the presidentan decided to end that e war, and we knew that is correct and we talked about that. thatwe al qaeda was already re-establishing a presence wa there.re we also said that we werece goi to watch that very, very closely. and stay vigilant.
detailn on the prospects for a drone strikepe hitting that hou. intelligence community reportedly built a physical model of the house, that they wanted to hit, they used to that physical model to show the president their intentions and brief the president on how the mission might unfold. president biden said in remarks to the nation tonight that he gave the order a week ago that they could strike when the right time and the right circumstances arose. those right circumstances and right time apparently arose saturday night, just before 10:00 p.m. eastern. which was just after 6:00 a.m. sunday morning in kabul. it was reportedly two hell-fire missiles fired from a cia operated drone. the president said tonight there were noid other casualties othe than ammanes al-zawahiri himsel. the president also said this. the united states continues to demonstratete our resolve an our capacity to defend the american people against those who seek to do us harm.