Biden confirms death of top Al-Qaeda leader
Biden confirms death of top Al-Qaeda leader
(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden announced Monday evening the United States conducted a drone strike over the weekend that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
“Justice has been delivered,” Biden said in a prime-time address from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House. “This terrorist leader is no more.”
Al-Zawahiri was a doctor born in Egypt in 1951 and succeeded Osama bin Laden as the…