.CIA reveals model of al Zawahiri's compound used to plan drone strike
At the time of his death, al Zawahiri was holed up in an at least three-story compound equipped with barbed-wire-topped walls and multiple balconies, the model revealed. Details about the model used to kill the terrorist leader who evaded authorities for decades had been kept under wraps until the agency displayed it at its museum, which is not open to the public, over the weekend.
CIA releases model of building where al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by US drone strike in Kabul pic.twitter.com/rKXPdcIL6fAlso located near the model are seven stars to commemorate the CIA workers killed in a 2009 suicide bombing near Khost, Afghanistan, CBS reported. The model of al Zawahiri's compound was declassified recently and is one of over 600 artifacts in the recently refurbished museum that is not yet open to the public, the report said.
The al Qaeda chief's hideout was in Kabul, Afghanistan, which has led to speculation that the Taliban harbored him after toppling the U.S.-backed government nearly a year before the drone strike. Al Zawahiri had been on the U.S. intelligence radar for decades and was credited with masterminding a number of terrorist attacks, most notably the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
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