The Americans killed the leader of Al Qaeda last weekend in a missile attack from a drone
The United States Department of State alerted its citizens on Tuesday to the possibility of becoming the targeted by al Qaeda sympathizers in retaliation after the death the weekend of the group’s leader, Ayman al Zawahiriin an anti-terrorist operation.
In a statement, the department headed by Antony Blinken said that following Al Zawahiri’s death, US facilities, personnel and citizens may be at increased risk, and advised maintaining a heightened state of alert when traveling abroad. Given this situation, the US government chose to update its World Alert, a guide that contains information about terrorist activity and violence abroad, as well as recommendations on how to act in the event of possible contingencies.
Among the possible risks facing US citizens, the State Department cited suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings and bomb attacks.
Al Zawahiri was assassinated on Sunday morning in a residence in Kabul, specifically at 6:18 local time (1:48 GMT), when he was on the balcony of the residence where he was staying and a drone fired two Hellfire missiles at him. According to the White House, only the leader of Al Qaeda died in the operation, and there was no collateral damage, not even the members of his family who were staying with him, something in which the country’s own president, Joe Biden, he had insisted on several occasions and that he had set as one of the conditions to proceed with the attack.