The CIA-planned Hellfire missile strike that killed terror mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri may signal the resurgence of a wave of extremist violence towards the West, experts have warned.
Two bladed R9X “ninja” Hellfires are believed to have sliced the 71-year-old al-Qaeda boss to pieces in a precision hit as he relaxed on the balcony of a posh Kabul mansion at the weekend.
But as the drone-launched razor rockets chopped into the most-hunted terrorist in the world a new and more dangerous al-Qaeda chief was waiting in the wings.