Fake News.Trump never wanted to take out top al-Qaeda target al-Zawahiri because he didn't recognize his name: report
President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. killed top al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who served as Osama bin Laden's No. 2 in the ongoing attacks on the United States. But according to an NBC report from 2020, former President Donald Trump had an opportunity to do the same, but refused because he didn't recognize al-Zawahiri's name.
Reporting in early 2020, NBC News reported that intelligence officials briefed then-President Trump many times about the most worrisome terrorist threats, specifically mentioning al-Zawahri.
Trump would ultimately agree to take out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Yemeni al Qaeda chief Qasim al-Rimi. But other of the significant names on the CIA's list were ignored.
Trump "was more interested in a young and less influential figure much farther down the list, according to two people familiar with the briefings, because he recognized the name," the report said at the time.
"He would say, 'I've never heard of any of these people. What about Hamza bin Laden?'" the former official told NBC.
A Pentagon official agreed, noting, "That was the only name he knew."
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lol Biden took out bin Laden and al Zawahiri. Trump can't take out the trash.
Joe Biden advised against Osama bin Laden raid, Barack Obama writes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/12/barack-obama-memoir-joe-biden-bin-laden-raid
Wrong. -------Biden advised against taking out Bin Laden.------- Trump got rid of Al Baghdadi, Qasim al-Rimi, Qassem Soleimani, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, Hamza bin Laden, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis for a start. By the way, Biden criticized Trump for taking out Soleimani but now takes a victory lap for Al Zawahiri. What a joke and he can't even pronounce his name correctly.
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Yeah, Trump's kill included two little girls and that was pretty shit.
“The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox News' “Fox and Friends” in December 2015. “They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families.”
Excellent point. We need to remember that the families are some of the ones enabling the terrorists to succeed.
Indeed.