Tag: Ayman al-Zawahri

CIA Unveils Model of al-Qaeda Leader al-Zawahri’s Hideout

McLEAN, Virginia—The CIA has revealed a model of Ayman al-Zawahri’s safe house, used to brief President Joe Biden about the al-Qaeda leader’s whereabouts before the agency killed him in a drone strike in Afghanistan. Shortly after al-Zawahri’s death, White House officials released a photo showing Biden talking to CIA Director William Burns with a closed…


Watching Al-Qaeda Chief’s ‘Pattern of Life’ Key to His Death

WASHINGTON—As the sun was rising in Kabul on Sunday, two Hellfire missiles fired by a U.S. drone ended Ayman al-Zawahri’s decade-long reign as the leader of Al-Qaeda. The seeds of the audacious counterterrorism operation had been planted over many months. U.S. officials had built a scale model of the safe house where al-Zawahri had been…