al Qaeda's Leader Is Dead. Now What?
President Joe Biden announced Monday that the United States had killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a drone strike over the weekend.\nZawahri, who was an Egyptian doctor, replaced Osama bin Laden after he was killed by U.S. Navy SEALS in May 2011. He was listed as the FBI\u2019s \u201cMost Wanted Terrorist\u201d and helped to plan the September 11 terrorist attacks.\n\u201cZawahri has been a high-level target of the United States, one of the most wanted people in the world for over 20 years,\u201d Jeff Smith, a research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, says. (The Daily Signal is Heritage\u2019s multimedia news organization.)\nSmith joins a bonus episode of \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\u201d to discuss the significance of Zawahri\u2019s death, the future of al-Qaeda, who might replace him, and counterterrorism operations in the Middle East.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.