Anonymous ID: 007247 Aug. 1, 2022, 10:34 p.m. No.16947826   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7859 >>8008 >>8170 >>8225 >>8261

Blitzed on his balcony: How CIA tracked 9/11 architect Ayman al-Zawahiri for more than 20 years before pounding the terror chief with two blade-filled Hellfire missiles when he stepped out of Kabul home and 'lingered'

 

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The strike was carried out early Sunday at an Afghanistan safe house the elderly terrorist had be holed up in, at 6:18 am local time and 9:48 pm Saturday in the US.

 

The early morning attack saw al-Zawahiri killed by two hellfire missiles fired from drones deployed by the CIA, as he stood on the balcony of the safe house in downtown Kabul.

 

The Egyptian-born jihadist apparently proceeded to linger on the landing, as U.S. intelligence had noted he often did, allowing the drone ample time to execute the attack.

 

The mission, officials said, took six months to plan - but served as the culmination of a much wider, carefully coordinated campaign to track down and kill the al Qaeda head, who had successfully evaded US armed forces up until this point.

 

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11071327/How-CIA-spied-Ayman-al-Zawahiri-months-pounding-terror-chief-Hellfire-missiles.html