
Al-Zawahri’s ascent followed years in which al-Qaida’s leadership had been devastated by U.S. Who was Ayman al-Zawahri?Īyman al-Zawahri was an Egyptian-born jihadist who became al-Qaida’s top leader in 2011 after his predecessor, Osama bin Laden, was killed by a U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Ingram and Andrew Mines, research fellows at the George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, to explain the significance of the strike on al-Zawahri and what it says about U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Haroro J. The Conversation asked Daniel Milton, a terrorism expert at the U.S. The operation came almost a year after American troops exited Afghanistan after decades of fighting there. President Joe Biden said during televised remarks on Aug. government.Īl-Zawahri was the the successor to Osama bin Laden and his death marked “one more measure of closure” to the families of those killed in the 2001 atrocities, U.S. They have toys and abilities that they wouldn't normally have in the regular Battlefield.Ĭlick here to skip the interview and head straight for the screenshots.Ayman al-Zawahri, leader of al-Qaida and a plotter of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has been killed in a drone strike in the Afghan city of Kabul, according to the U.S. The battlefield environment is still Battlefield gameplay, but everyone feels a bit more powerful. So where Battlefield 2 is a playground for your regular grunt soldier, you put Special Forces in there and they can do all of these wonderful things that have the player feel like a super soldier now. The idea of Special Forces is the idea of night vision and all the other neat little things that they can do put into the Battlefield environment. So we started brainstorming and this idea of Special Operations kept coming up, so we ran with that idea. We don't want to change the fundamentals of Conquest but we really wanted it to feel like something different. How do we change the game without changing the game that much. AJ Marini: Well, what we did was take out experience with Battlefield 2 and set it into a different environment.
