From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernice. This is the Daily.

I fell Americans. On Saturday, in my direction, the United States successfully concluded a

narrow strike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed the Emir of El Qaeda.

On Monday, President Biden announced that the United States had just killed the leader of El Qaeda,

one of the key masterminds behind the September 11 attacks in a drone strike in Afghanistan.

We make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide,

if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out.

My colleague Eric Schmidt on Iman Alzwakiri and what is death means for Afghanistan's relationship

with the United States and for the threat of global terrorism.

It's Tuesday, August 2.

So Eric, we're talking to you at 815 on Monday night.

President Biden just finished a surprise address to the nation.

He told us about a successful counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan.

What do we need to know about this man, Zawahiri?

First and foremost, what you need to know about Zawahiri was he succeeded or some have been lawden when bin Laden was killed

in a Navy SEAL raid in 2011. It was a long time number two to bin Laden, but he was more than that.

He was also the intellectual spine for al-Qaeda.

If you think of bin Laden as kind of the front man who's the Glitzy Glamrs guy who brought prestige and money to al-Qaeda,

Zawahiri was really the man who was the ideologue, who was the chief operating officer if you will.

And of this pair, he was really the more hard line of the two.

And how did he get drawn into Islamic politics and then to terrorism?

So it's interesting. He was born in an upscale Cairo neighborhood in Egypt, but was radicalized pretty early.

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