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Trump Failed To kill Most Wanted Al- Qeada Leader Al-Zawahiri
Trump missed the chance of taking out Al- Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri
EKO HOT BLOG reports that President Joe Biden recently announced that the United States has killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, a senior al-Qaeda figure who acted as Osama bin Laden’s deputy in the ongoing operations against the United States.
But according to a 2020 NBC report, previous President Donald Trump was given the chance to act similarly but declined because he didn’t know the name of al-Zawahiri.
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Early in 2020, NBC News reported that intelligence authorities repeatedly briefed then-President Trump on the most concerning terrorist threats, including al-Zawahiri explicitly.
Trump would eventually consent to kill Qasim al-Rimi of Yemen and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of ISIS. Other notable individuals on the CIA’s list, however, went unnoticed.
Trump “was more interested in a young and less influential figure much farther down the list, according to two people familiar with the briefings, because he recognized the name,” the report said at the time.
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“He would say, ‘I’ve never heard of any of these people. What about Hamza bin Laden?'” the former official told NBC.
A Pentagon official agreed, noting, “That was the only name he knew.”
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