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Here is where Ayman al-Zawahiri, a coward who worked for Al Qaeda, finally got what he deserved.
Photos from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, show the three-story building where two US "sword bomb" missiles killed a lifelong jihadist who helped plan the Sept. 11 terror attacks at 6:18 a.m. Sunday.
The place where al-Zawahiri was killed is marked by tarps draped over the front and side windows of the not-so-safe house where he seemed to be staying as a guest of top Taliban leaders.
The building that was hit by two RX9 Hellfire missiles from a CIA drone looks mostly undamaged on the inside. This shows how deadly and precise the missiles were.
President Biden called it a "total success" on Monday and said that no one in al-family Zawahiri's was hurt and that no civilians were hurt.
“Justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more,” he said.
Senior US government officials said on Monday that al-Zawahiri and his family had been seen at the house for months, and that high-level national security briefings had begun there as early as April.
Officials painstakingly constructed “a pattern of life” to pin down al-Zawahri’s movements, even building a scale model of the safe house that was shown to Biden in the White House Situation Room.
Officials told reporters that the terrorist didn't seem to ever leave the house, but he was seen "multiple times for long periods of time" on the balcony where he was finally hit on Sunday.
Biden had tried to stop then-President Barack Obama from killing bin Laden, but this time he gave his approval for the strike.
Biden said in his speech Monday, "After carefully considering the clear and convincing evidence of his location, I gave the go-ahead for a precision strike to take him off the battlefield for good."
"This mission was carefully and carefully planned to make sure that as few civilians as possible would be hurt," he said.
After the strike, the Haqqani Taliban network was seen making it harder for people to get into the safe house and moving the dead al Qaeda leader's family. This was seen as an attempt by the country's leaders to hide the fact that they had been hiding the world's most wanted terrorist.
The Taliban on Tuesday said it “strongly condemns this attack,” calling it “a clear violation of international principles” as well as the Doha Agreement signed by the US and Taliban in 2020.
But Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Islamist group had "grossly broken" the deal by "hosting and sheltering" the terrorist who was wanted.
Under Doha, the Taliban said they wouldn't let Afghanistan be used as a base for international jihadism again, but experts think the group never cut ties with Al-Qaeda, as reported by Agence France-Presse.
The house itself was said to belong to a top aide to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban government's interior minister.
In 2012, the US called his family's Haqqani Network a "Foreign Terrorist Organization." It was blamed for some of the worst attacks of the Afghan war.
A senior US official told AFP, "What we know is that the senior Haqqani Taliban knew [al-Zawahiri] was in Kabul."
