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Robert Fox

US cut-and-run from Afghanistan has opened up a new hub

Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, the leader of the al Qaeda terrorist group was killed by a “precision” strike from Hellfire missiles launched from a US drone, as he stood on the balcony at a safe house in Kabul last Sunday.

The family had moved back to the Afghan capital shortly after it fell to the Taliban a year ago. None of the family is reported killed in the strike by a drone launched from a US base in the Gulf.

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