No DNA confirmation of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death

On the morning of July 31, when Ayman al-Zawahiri was on the balcony of a safe house, He was hit by two Hellfire missiles, A senior US intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was the residence of a key adviser to senior Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.

John Kirby, the coordinator of strategic communications at the US National Security Council, said there was no DNA confirmation to support al-Zawahiri’s demise. At the same time, he added: “Clearly, based on the many sources and methods from which we collected the information, we do not need to.”

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Instead, US officials had “visual evidence and evidence collected by other means”. This gave him a high degree of confidence that the al Qaeda leader is no more. According to Kirby, the US assessment of high trust took into account what the people on the ground did afterward.

He told reporters at the White House that the missile strike, according to Kirby, indicated that Afghanistan was not and will not be a refuge for terrorists. He continued by saying that although there are still very few al Qaeda members in Afghanistan, the US was aware of their presence.

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From the balcony of the White House Blue Room, US President Joe Biden announced the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri and declared that “justice has been served,

As Biden called it yet another measure of closure for the relatives of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, Biden declared, “This terrorist leader is no more.”

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