The Taliban haven’t discovered the physique of Ayman Al Zawahiri and are persevering with investigations, the group’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, mentioned on Thursday.
The USA mentioned they killed the Al Qaeda chief in Kabul final month, with a missile fired from a drone whereas he stood on a balcony at his hideout, within the largest blow to the terrorist group since Osama bin Laden was shot lifeless greater than a decade in the past.
However Mr Mujahid mentioned: “The investigation into the killing of Ayman Al Zawahiri remains to be ongoing, which can be clarified after the investigation is accomplished.”
Al Zawahiri, 71, considered the mental drive of the Al Qaeda motion, took over the group after US particular forces assassinated bin Laden in a secure home in Pakistan in 2011.
As bin Laden’s long-serving deputy, he was mentioned to have been concerned in plotting quite a few terrorist atrocities in opposition to the West, together with the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the assault on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, the September 11 assaults and the 2005 London bombings.
Al Zawahiri had been on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist checklist for conspiracy to homicide US residents, and the US State Division provided a $25 million reward for info on his whereabouts.
For years, his demise has been rumoured however he appeared in April in a video praising an Indian Muslim scholar who wore a hijab in protest in opposition to a ban in opposition to the normal garment.
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