It's Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview. In worldview terms, two huge stories,

both of them coming with international date lines, one coming to us from Afghanistan,

the other coming to us from

Taiwan. First, Dateline Afghanistan.

The big news is that on Saturday night in the United States, Sunday morning in

Cabool Afghanistan, the United States military undertook a drone attack that

took out the head of al-Qaeda.

That would be a man by the name of Iman al-Zawari. We'll be looking more closely at his story but the most

important thing to understand is that he was the head of Al Qaeda for the last

decade or more and he was directly involved with Osama bin Laden in plotting terror

attacks against the United States including the bombing of American embassies in 1998, an attack in Nairobi, a 2,000 attack upon a Navy vessel, the U.S.S.

coal, the 9-11 attacks, most infamously in 2001, and so the United States has been looking for Mr. Zawari for quite a while

and tracked him down in Kabul, Afghanistan in a rather wealthy neighborhood

that have been remade in recent years, but the most important thing to understand is that the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan opened the door for the Taliban to take control, and the Taliban, even though they had given assurances to the contrary,

they had allowed Zawari and his terror network to be re-established there within Kabul, Afghanistan.

The United States military took months, determining that the man who had been appearing

out on the balcony of this building actually was, Iman, Al-Zawari, but once they had made that determination,

the United States military came up with a way to take him out.

And the technology was one particular kind of weapon or another delivered by a drone.

There's a little bit of imprecision here because sources very close to the American

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