Early morning of July 31, 2022 marked the culmination of the United States’ relentless 11-year hunt for its most wanted terrorist al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri bringing closure to the kin of 9/11 victims.
The Taliban’s apparent sheltering of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed last weekend in a US drone strike in Kabul, dealt a blow to an already politically fraught attempt to free up $3.5 billion in frozen bank funds to alleviate poverty and famine in Afghanistan.
on a very important issue unlesser of you are able to unless either of you are able to tell me what the plan will be. the legal debates continue. was anything said at the hearing about u.s. troops staying in afghanistan after this year? another hot topic. the most important headline from the hearing that the u.s. will now likely wait until after president hamid karzai leaves office this summer to get a security agreement that would allow u.s. troops to stay in afghanistan. without that agreement, the u.s. would have to roll up its drone program there which would harm the u.s. ability to target terrorists like zawahari in pakistan. whoever the next afghan president is, he is likely to be more reliable than president karzai. and his signature is likely to instill more confidence than would karzai s signature. with two months to go in the presidential campaign, i hope our witnesses will tell fuss
and they will have no doubt about which channels of communication ab. is this a smart response that we are on to you. we recognize what you will do. we ll respond to keep our people safe. you won t get away with it in the long run. there was too much information released about one thing which is the communications that gave rise to the terror alert. if you look at the newspaper stories, and there is a long number of them. they get into communications between zawahari and rahachy. there was the ascension to general manager of al qaeda. the amalgamation of the pieces would make very clear to anyone within the organization which specific lines of communication were compromised. i mentioned the daily beast report. that story talks about the fact that there is what they call a conference call. it s really basically encrypted
or at least elements of the pakistani military service know where he is? well, i would guess that somebody has information that is valuable to us to find mr. zawahari. that would go a long way in improving that relationship. it would be a i think it would be a big healer in our relationship and, again, i hope that we take this opportunity to say, yep, it was embarrassing. it was bad. now this is the time to step up. more transparency, more access, share more information, let s move forward and use this as an opportunity to strengthen our relationship, not weaken it. the al qaeda organization named another egyptian, like their interim leader. what do we know about this guy? well, all of the folks that they have talked about and this particular gentlemen ja is one