US Drones tracked al-Qaeda leader for 鈥榤onths鈥�
The al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been killed in a US drone strike carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
Zawahiri took over al-Qaeda after the death of Osama Bin Laden in 2011. He and Bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks together and he was one of the US's "most wanted terrorists".
Dr Jonathan Schroden is an expert on military operations and director of the Center for Naval Analysis, a US-based research and analysis organisation. He told Newsday that the CIA 鈥渉ad been gathering intelligence on Zawahiri鈥檚 pattern of life for at least several months, perhaps as long as half a year and they knew that he never left this compound but he routinely went out onto a balcony to get fresh air鈥�.
(Picture: This image taken from a collection of videotapes obtained by CNN shows Ayman al-Zawahiri (L) and Osama Bin Laden (R) in 1998 in Afghanistan. Credit: CNN via Getty Images)
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