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For decades, he served as “the mastermind behind attacks against Americans,” President Biden said. After al-Qaeda’s forced retreat from its base in Afghanistan in late 2001, it was largely Zawahiri who led the group’s resurgence in the lawless region across the border in Pakistan. When bin Laden was killed in 2011, his No. 2, Zawahiri, took over.
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Although he was the intellectual force behind the terrorist movement, some experts say Zawahiri lacked bin Laden’s charisma. He remained as a figurehead but failed to prevent the splintering of the Islamist movement in Syria and other conflict zones after 2011.
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Security experts say the operation demonstrates that the U.S. is still able to carry out precision strikes in Afghanistan. On the other hand, it also highlights the Taliban’s apparent willingness to accommodate al-Qaeda operatives. At the time of his death, U.S. intelligence indicated that Zawahiri, rather than hiding, was living with his family in Kabul in a high-security residential district where many senior Taliban figures reside.