Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has allegedly been killed.
Joe Biden made a statement taking credit for the US drone strikes that killed the Al-Qaeda emir.
Al-Zawahiri was known as Bin Laden’s ‘number two.’
There’s just one small problem…
Ayman al-Zawahiri has been reported dead on several occasions over the last decade and change.
The timing of his latest death seems a bit suspect…
The US has killed the head of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden says https://t.co/1mdBFezz3H
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) August 1, 2022
The BBC reported on Biden’s claim that US drone strikes had killed the Al-Qaeda leader:
The US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed.
He was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA in the…