{"id":11311,"date":"2022-08-02T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=11311"},"modified":"2022-08-02T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T09:28:08","slug":"saudi-arabia-welcomes-killing-of-al-zawahiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/08\/saudi-arabia-welcomes-killing-of-al-zawahiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia welcomes killing of al-Zawahiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Saudi Arabia has welcomed the announcement of Zawahiri killing in a US attack in Kabul, Afghanistan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia welcomed the announcement by US President Joe Biden of the targeting and killing of the terrorist leader of Al-Qaeda Ayman Al-Zawahiri,&#8221; the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>US President on Monday evening announced that the CIA had carried out the drone strike over the weekend and killed Zawahiri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did Obama say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former US president Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the killing of al-Zawahiri.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter Obama said, &#8220;More than 20 years after 9\/11, one of the masterminds of that terrorist attack and Osama bin Laden&#8217;s successor as the leader of al-Qaeda \u2013 Ayman al-Zawahiri \u2013 has finally been brought to justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tribute to President Biden&#8217;s leadership, to the members of the intelligence community who have been working for decades for this moment, and to the counterterrorism professionals who were able to take al-Zawahiri out without a single civilian casualty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight&#8217;s news is also proof that it&#8217;s possible to root out terrorism without being at war in Afghanistan. And I hope it provides a small measure of peace to the 9\/11 families and everyone else who has suffered at the hands of al-Qaeda,&#8221; the former US President added.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN, the US undertook &#8220;a precision counterterrorism operation&#8221; targeting Zawahiri, who was sheltering in a safehouse in Kabul, a senior administration told reporters Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official, &#8220;a precise tailored airstrike&#8221; using two hellfire missiles was conducted at 9:48 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 30 at 6:18 am (Kabul time), through an unmanned air strike.<\/p>\n<p>It was authorised by Biden following weeks of meetings with his cabinet and key advisers. No American personnel were on the ground in Kabul at the time of the strike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>hough clear details are yet to emerge, photos of the alleged safehouse in Kabul where Zawahiri was said to have resided emerged on social media.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Saudi Arabia has welcomed the announcement of Zawahiri killing in a US attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,4,6],"tags":[12,699,884],"class_list":["post-11311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-al-zawahiri"],"views":186,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}