'Deceased': FBI updates profile of al-Zawahiri

August 02, 2022 09:54

The Federal Bureau of Investigation added a "deceased" caption under the profile image of Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri on its website, after the most wanted terrorist was killed by the United States in an air strike in Kabul.

Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan on Saturday, according to US President Joe Biden.

There is what the profile of Zawahiri was on the FBI website before his killing was announced.

In a televised address on Monday (local time), US President Joe Biden said that "Justice has been delivered."

al-Zawahiri was one of the world's most wanted terrorists and a mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks was killed in a drone strike carried out by the US in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday.

"On Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully conducted an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed the emir of al-Qa'ida: Ayman al-Zawahiri. Justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more," Biden said in a video address from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House.

"He will never again, never again, allow Afghanistan to become a terrorist safe haven because he is gone and we're going to make sure that nothing else happens," he added.

Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11 and he also acted as Osama Bin Ladens personal physician.

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