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so alex, did the u.s. have any help on the ground from sources who were not americans? reporter: well, alisyn and victor, that is a terrific question. it s one of the many that we still have about how this intelligence was gathered and of course how this culminated in the killing of ayman al zawahiri. it s certainly possible that there were afghans acting as intelligence assets or agents on the ground, but for now, the administration is not detailing what they call the sources and methods that helped them gather this intelligence. it s very safe to assume that much of this intelligence was gathered from the sky through visual methods, drones and satellites as well as through what s known as signals intelligence, basically intercepting communications. but this was a months-long process. the white house saying today that this took most of the year, and president biden was first briefed in april when there were indications that zawahiri had moved not just to afghanistan but to
EveryoneCaptionsAlisyn-camerotaWww-vitac-com-helloVictor-blackwellVitacCnn-newsroomTwoU-s-House-speakerAfghanistanOfficialsPossibly eavesdropping on phones and they used minimal amounts of force to kill him on the balcony of a house that probably housed rich westerners over the decades. it s a very nice part of kabul. i can t get over the idea that he s hanging around a place where there may have been parties held during the nato presence there. what does it mean for al qaeda? well, he s a superannuated leader. al qaeda was certainly there, and there were warnings before the u.s. left that by the end of this year, maybe early next, they might be in a place to have reconstituted to possibly attack the west. that was disputed a lot by the west before this strike, a lot of that messaging was, al qaeda s not a problem, and now, clearly, they know exactly how big a problem al qaeda have been. so, it robs this probably the most well known terrorist group in the world of its symbolic figurehead. does it mean that stuff that may have been in their planning
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