<p>Terrorism experts quickly downplayed Democrat President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s attempts to count the CIA&#8217;s killing of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/al-qaeda">Al Qaeda</a> Ayman Al-Zawahiri in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> as a win for his administration, noting the fact that Al-Zawahiri was in Afghanistan at all means that the terrorist group has returned to the country where they planned the 9/11 attacks.</p>
<p>During the chaotic pullout from Afghanistan last year, Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/20/remarks-by-president-biden-on-evacuations-in-afghanistan/">declared</a> that Al Qaeda was &#8220;gone&#8221; from Afghanistan.</p>
<p>On Monday night, Biden declared that &#8220;justice has been delivered&#8221; and that he would hunt down and kill anyone who was a threat to the U.S.</p>
<p>However, terrorism and national security experts quickly pumped the brakes on celebrating Al-Zawahiri&#8217;s death as a major win because of what it meant: Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>&#8220;The killing of Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri will be sold as a counterterrorism success. But that narrative masks the undeniable truth that Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is a safe have for Al Qaeda,&#8221; Bill Roggio, terrorism analyst at the Long War Journal, <a href="https://twitter.com/billroggio/status/1554266397836025856">tweeted</a>. &#8220;The strike that killed Zawahiri is the first since the U.S withdrawal 1+ months ago. The U.S. saved best for first, and made the first counterterrorism strike count.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Zawahiri was killed in the Sherpur neighborhood, in a home run by a deputy of Sirajuddin Haqqani. Sirajuddin is of course one of two deputy Taliban emirs as well as the interior minister,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Zawahiri could not operate in Afghanistan &#8211; particularly in Kabul &#8211; without the consent of the Taliban. He wasn&#8217;t in the remote mountains of Kunar, Nuristan, or Nangarhar, or distant provinces of Ghazni, Helmand, or Kandahar. He was in the Taliban&#8217;s capital.&#8221;</p>
<p>Max Abrahms, an International security professor, said that killing Al Zawahiri was not &#8220;the categorical win Biden says.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Taliban was supposed to prevent Al Qaeda leaders from hiding out there for goodness sake,&#8221; Abrahms added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Taking out <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Zawahiri?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Zawahiri</a> isn’t the categorical win Biden says. The Taliban was supposed to prevent Al Qaeda leaders from hiding out there for goodness sake.</p>
<p>&mdash; Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1554252573351333889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Rita Katz, Director of SITE Intelligence Group, <a href="https://twitter.com/Rita_Katz/status/1554264572160352257">noted</a>: &#8220;That Zawahiri, after years of hiding and immense OPSEC, was killed on a balcony in a wealthy downtown neighborhood of Kabul&#8211;it just shows what a drastic sense of empowerment al-Qaeda leadership has felt under Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There was a reason that Ayman al-Zawahiri was in Kabul,&#8221; said Tim Kennedy, a former special forces operator. &#8220;Serving as the #2 to Bin Laden in al Qaeda he took advantage of our failed evacuation of Afghanistan and the power vacuum. It is a safe haven for terrorists all around the world. This is a byproduct of what we created.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">There was a reason that Ayman al-Zawahiri was in Kabul. Serving as the #2 to Bin Laden in al Qaeda he took advantage of our failed evacuation of Afghanistan and the power vacuum. It is a safe haven for terrorists all around the world.  This is a byproduct of what we created.</p>
<p>&mdash; Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimKennedyMMA/status/1554265102232215552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2022</a></p></blockquote>

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