Saudi Arabia has welcomed the US announcement that Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a precision strike, Hidustan Times reports. The remarks came after President Joe Biden’s video statement where he made the announcement about the killing of one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists, who was behind the 9/11 attacks.
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia welcomed the announcement by US President Joe Biden of the targeting and killing of the terrorist leader of Al-Qaeda Ayman Al-Zawahiri,” Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry released a statement.
The Saudi foreign ministry further said he was “considered one of the leaders of terrorism that led the planning and execution of heinous terrorist operations in the United States, Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries of the world. Thousands of innocent people of different nationalities and religions, including Saudi citizens, were killed.”
“The Kingdom’s government stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation and concerted international efforts to combat and eradicate terrorism, calling on all countries to cooperate in this framework to protect innocent people from terrorist organisations,” the statement read.
