this evening. justice has been delivered. and this terrorist leader is no more. after carefully considering the clear and convincing evidence of a location, i authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield once and for all. one week ago, after being advised of the conditions were optimal. i gave the final approval to go get him! biden described al-zawahiri, as a terrorist to quote, carved a trail unquote. of violence against u.s. citizens, reminding that he was the mastermind at the bombing of the uss coal in 2000 which killed 17 u.s. sailors. the fbi just now updated its most wanted terrorist status for al-zawahiri with the word deceased. al-zawahiri was killed in a precise strike as the president on a balcony of a safe house with two hellfire missiles according to a u.s. official. no american personnel were on the grounds in kabul at the time of the strike. no civilian casualties either according to the president. the death of al-zawahiri comes
side of things. we should not aspire to live in a society where we celebrate or give a president a bump in the polls for the loss of any life. i do think that it s worth thinking about that for a moment. at the same, time one of the moments where president biden s presidency started to go south was the pull out of afghanistan. the worry that people had was that this was gonna make americans less safe considering the past 20 years. whether or not that s founded on a basis, who knows. but this does feel like he s going back and trying to correct that. the other part of this is that it comes on a week, maybe two weeks of momentum, whether it s inflation reduction or the fact that we are seeing pick up in terms of where we think things are gonna go building on that momentum is