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2022-08-27 Afghanistan
Taliban Says the Group Has Not Found Al-Qaeda Chief’s Body
[KhaamaPress] After the US claimed the al-Qaeda chief was killed in a US drone Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Kabul last month, the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
announced on Thursday that they have not discovered Ayman al-Zawahiri
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
’s body and that the group is still conducting investigations.

The body of al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has not yet been discovered, according to Zabihullah Mujahid, the senior front man for the Taliban government who spoke at a presser in Kabul, the Afghan capital.

The Taliban official stated that the group has not yet been successful in finding the dead body of Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The fact that two Hellfire missiles fired from a drone killed the al-Qaeda leader while doing astonishingly little damage elsewhere suggests they are reportedly a type of the missile the US uses to prevent non-combatant fatalities.

The dronezap was reportedly confirmed by members of the Taliban, longtime partners of al-Qaeda, but they claimed the house struck was unoccupied, according to Rooters.

Previously, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the chief of al-Qaeda, was reportedly killed in a CIA drone operation in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, according to Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
, the president of the US, who announced the news in a special broadcast.

The death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the eyes of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, has improved global security.

By "hosting and sheltering" the al-Qaeda chief in Kabul, the Taliban administration in Afghanistan violated its commitments to the international community, according to the US official.

The new announcement from the Taliban comes as previously they had announced that the group did not have knowledge of al-Zawahiri’s "arrival and stay" in Kabul.
Speaking of the US strike on Kabul, Mujahid said: “It is still at the level of allegation. The results have yet to be clarified. The body has not been found there because of the rockets that targeted the area—the area is destroyed and nothing is left of it,” he said.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban/IEA 

#1 "Someone painted the apartment pink though..."
Posted by Frank G 2022-08-27 09:24||   2022-08-27 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, there was an irregularity in the neighborhood shortly after Ayman's demise, the Bar-B-Que. As the smell of pork wafted through the streets and alleyways of Kabul, the unclean dogs feasted on shredded "pork". None of the residents in the vicinity much cared nor were enticed by the aroma of freshly cooked pork, but they were glad, when the dogs consumed every piece within minutes. And the main BBQ entree, quickly digested, found itself deposited in dog pile heaps on the grassy parkland, curbsides and sewer grates. (Or so, I would like to believe happened, that day.)
Posted by Glinert Lumplump7790 2022-08-27 11:26||   2022-08-27 11:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Possible Z was not there. Or Taliban are lying. Or there is nothing left to find. Who knows.
Posted by Glenmore  2022-08-27 13:35||   2022-08-27 13:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I like the stray dog hypotheses
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2022-08-27 15:23||   2022-08-27 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I like the outcome of the stray dog hypotheses.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-27 15:25||   2022-08-27 15:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I can't keep this stuff straight, but isn't he supposed to be down a well or something?
Posted by Mercutio 2022-08-27 18:58||   2022-08-27 18:58|| Front Page Top

#7 12th Mullah. Nobby Forehead never qualified
Posted by Frank G 2022-08-27 19:00||   2022-08-27 19:00|| Front Page Top

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