Who was al Qaeda leader and key 9/11 architect Ayman al-Zawahiri?
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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri's death at the hands of a US drone strike brings an end to his "trail of murder and violence against American citizens," President Joe Biden said Monday evening.
Zawahiri, 71, was a key architect behind multiple assaults on the US, and was "deeply involved" in the planning of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, Biden said.
"People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. The United States continues to demonstrate our resolve and our capacity to defend the American people against those who seek to do us harm," Biden said from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House.
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time for this war to end.