Biden confirms al-Qaeda leader’s death in Afghanistan strike

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Al Qaeda leader killed in U.S. strike: Biden

STORY: Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who had a $25 million bounty on his head, helped coordinate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the United States carried out a drone strike in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday morning at 6:18 a.m. local time.”Now justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said in remarks from the White House. “We never back down.”