How the CIA identified and killed Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri
The HinduAl-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri liked to read alone on the balcony of his Kabul safe house early in the morning, a "pattern-of-life intelligence" that eventually gave American intelligence agencies the chance to carry out a precision strike that killed one of the world's most wanted terrorists, a report said. "Intelligence officers made a crucial discovery this spring after tracking Ayman al-Zawahri, the leader of Al Qaeda, to Kabul, Afghanistan: He liked to read alone on the balcony of his safe house early in the morning," The New York Times said in a report titled 'How the CIA Tracked the Leader of Al Qaeda'. The report added that the "safe house" where Zawahiri stayed was owned by "an aide to senior officials in the Haqqani network" in an area in the Afghan capital controlled by the terror group. It added that Zawahiri's ties to leaders of the Haqqani network "led US intelligence officials to the safe house" where he was hiding.