Because the killing of al-Zawahiri is a double victory for the US
Scope and effects of the killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Marco Orioles's point
The great American reaper strikes again, this time hitting the big target.
With two Helfire missiles launched from a CIA drone, the leader of al-Qa'ida Ayman al-Zawahiri, who all he was Osama bin Laden's deputy at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
This was announced last night by President Biden in a speech to the nation in which he did not attribute the merit of the operation to anyone in particular, although the reference was clear from his praise to the intelligence community that with tenacity and perseverance in these over twenty years of jihad against the West hunted Zawahiri and other terrorists wherever they were.
The organization until yesterday headed by the Egyptian doctor was now a pale shadow of what, in the years of bin Laden's leadership, not only expanded around the world but was able to repeatedly hit its enemies, including America mortally wounded not only by the kamikaze attacks of 11 September, but also in its embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salam three years earlier.
By now eclipsed by the fame of the Islamic State, al-Qa'ida was almost reduced to a minor acronym in the panorama of global jihadism. In any case, with Zawahiri, a dangerous terrorist leaves the scene who, in the guise of the ideologue of the cause of the martyrs of Allah, had incited thousands of Muslims deluded against the West that they had found, in the holy war, a way to redeem their lands from the plagues of injustice.
But jihadism represents precisely the paroxysm of injustice, with its macabre and distorted vision of society that justifies murder, slavery, war, and which does little to promote development, culture and peace in a difficult region like the Great Middle East.
Had he been captured alive, Zawahiri would have had to answer personally for several of the massacres he planned. Instead, he had to be found in Kabul, where he lived protected by those Taliban who in the Doha agreements signed with the Americans in 2020, the premise for their conquest of power the following year, had sworn to sever ties with terrorist organizations.
With the strike on July 31, Washington hit two targets: a symbol of global and armed Islamic subversion, and a regime that thought it had gained impunity after the ignominious US flight in August last year.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/uccisione-al-zawahiri-al-qaida/ on Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:56:38 +0000.