This is weird. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was always hiding in the same Afghanistan-Pakistan area where Osama Bin Laden was hiding out, was very old ten years ago in 2012 when he established the Libyan branch of al-Qaeda. [SEE CTH Archives] This guy is ancient by now.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was #2 to Bin Laden and elevated to #1 after his death. Ayman has a younger brother named Mohammed al-Zawahiri who was the Muslim Brotherhood organizer of the uprising in Egypt, and very likely the person who helped coordinate the 9/11/2012 protest on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that happened on the same day as the attack in Benghazi.
According to media reporting, the CIA is claiming to have killed Ayman al-Zawahiri last weekend and Joe Biden is going to give a congratulatory speech about it tonight at 7:30pm ET. Something about this is odd, he was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan? Ayman al-Zawahiri was seriously old if he was still actually alive.
WASHINGTON DC – The United States killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a drone strike over the weekend, two people briefed on the operation told POLITICO.
In a statement to reporters, a senior administration official said “over the weekend, the United States conducted a counterterrorism operation against a significant Al Qaeda target in Afghanistan. The operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties.”
One of the people briefed on the operation said the strike in Kabul was led by the CIA. President Joe Biden plans to give a speech about “on a successful counterterrorism mission” at 7:30 p.m. (read more)
If, and that’s a big stretch for me at this point, if the story is correct…. then the Taliban wanted to get rid of Zawahiri due to some kind of power conflict. No way Zawahiri travels to Kabul (if he was really alive) and then gets picked-off by the CIA. Was he going there for medical treatment or was in an old folk’s home for retired terrorists?
The Wiki age on this guy is nonsense. He was way older than 71.
Here is a picture of Ayman (with Bin Laden) long before 9/11/01.
Here is the most recent picture of Ayman, attributed to 2021.
Something is fishy about this.
On the left is Ayman and Osama in Afghanistan (late ’90’s?), on the right is Ayman’s brother in Egypt (2012).
The CIA ya say? The same ones who funded and supported the Mujahideen in Afghanistan back when the soviets were in there? ‘Magine that.
After the Reds left, The Northern Alliance Muge became sworn enemies of the Arab AQ.
Yeah, we propped up Bin Laden back then
We did not prop-up Bin Laden as you suggest. He was operating out of Khost, Afghanistan, when he and forty others formed the Al Qaeda. It receiven no backing then, or later, from the CIA or western intelligence agencies. The first ‘fatwa’ produced by the AQ Imam declared war on the west. Following fatwas made the USA a more specific target. When Bin Laden appeared in Sudan in 1991 he was for the CIA a relatively unknown personage except for the fact that he had escaped Saudi Arabia while under arrest for radical Islamist activity. The Sudan govt offered him to the USA in 1995 but Susan Rice rejected the offer.
It was Saudi Arabia that ‘funded’ the Mujahideen operating in Afghanistan, while the CIA provided the weaponry. Most US arms were released to Pakistan’s military ISI in the port of Karachi. Most CIA were located either in Islamabad or Peshawar during the war in Afghanistan. If it had a serious agent presence inside of Afghanistan the CIA has never admitted it.
Didn’t the US establish Al Qaida in Afghanistan when Afghanistan was fighting Russia? I wonder if Ayman al-Zawahiri was writing his memoirs?
US and EU sure seem to be interfering in a lot of places recently, stirring the pot.
See JMB response to Randolph, above. In a sense Zawahiri did write a memoire of sorts in a book written in Egypt after he returned to Egypt at the end of the Soviet-Afghanistan war. (Sorry, the title escapes me. It was something like ‘Jihadist fighting under the banner’of something or other.
He ded already according to this…
Also weird in that one pic he looks *oddly* younger 😂
Is somebody doing damage control editing old pics of him online??
Some say the first death was an act so he could walk around freely and terrorize more…..
Soooooo, who do you believe?
I don’t believe any of the ‘reports’…past or present…they just lie, keep lying and then lie more.
I’m really more concerned about the more practical aspect of living my life, like having $$’s to pay bills, eat, see a reputable doctor when needed, live my life to it’s fullest…enjoy my family; watching them succeed…silly, little things like that.
Documentary that destroys all aspects of the official 9/11 narrative
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Lp81hoFneM4z/
It’s always lies and BS from the US puppet govt and the fake media. Not sure why they had to make up this latest story about killing a guy who died years ago. Maybe they are just trying to bring up the specter of an outside enemy, so people forget about the central banker puppet US government enemy based in DC.
Probably spitballing about how they could get Joe’s poll numbers up and someone said “Let’s say he killed a terrorist. How about that al Queda guy. Somebody Google his name”. One hour later: “Who the hell was in charge of making sure the dude we ‘killed’ wasn’t already dead? Quick, plant some stories that he faked his death”
Natural causes – burial by drone strike. Taliban – ok we did your wag the dog – now give us the Afghanistan money. Blinkin is all about the old school diplomacy by check book, but if someone has got your number and doesn’t want your check? Floundering ensues.
This is almost like a 3 ring circus! Last week, all the furor about Pelosi and China. Then Blinken interfering in Kosovo. Now al-Zawahiri allegedly killed. It seems that we are being told to take our attention away from the US/NATO failure in Ukraine, and that it’s time to focus on something else. I wonder what will be next??
This video is going around on TruthSocial saying he died of natural causes a year ago:
Al-Qaeda = Al-CIA-Duh
So…. Two Hellfire missiles on his balcony and no one else was injured? How caring of brandon and his CIA.
There appears to be quite an effort underway to squelch the dark economic woes and Fed rate hikes. From huge budget bills to Ukraine to abortion concerns.
Almost like avoidance, if you will.
And when our leaders ignore real problems for too long their solutions are very heavy handed and often not the will of the people.
And there is the pending dollar reserve issue which no one, even the Fed, seems to be concerned about.
The CIA created Al Qaeda. This is a fact that seem to be conveniently forgotten at every waking moment.
“and there were no civilian casualties”
Funny how they always claim that. You know it’s not true if they have to lie about it up front.
Biden Claims Al Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Has Been Killed — For the 4th Time?
Notorious Al Qaeda terror group leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was reported to have died in a drone strike over the weekend in Kabul, Afghanistan. President Biden announced the news from the balcony of the White House. But you’ll forgive some people if they fall into the “trust but verify camp” on al-Zawahiri-is-dead news.
You see, the world was also told that al-Zawahiri died before. Task and Purpose inserted natural skepticism about Monday’s news in a story headlined, “Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda deputy is dead for real this time.” The military website acknowledged that “after mistakenly being declared dead several times in the past, Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death has been officially announced – presumably for the final time – by President Joe Biden on Monday.”
Zawahiri was also thought to be dead in 2020. Democrat thinks tank The Brookings Institution said, “al-Zawahri may be dead or at least appears to be ‘completely off the grid,’ according to journalist and veteran jihadi-watcher Hassan Hassan. These reports come at the same time as the killing of another very senior al-Qaida leader, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, in Tehran, reportedly by Israeli agents at the behest of the United States.”