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That he was living there and approved that. but are their capabilities of the isis affiliate, against the isis affiliate? >> they are battling the isis affiliate. theyre also battling the resisting forces of their term. let me highlight something you just mentioned, anderson, and that is of course he was located in kabul, indicating clearly that the taliban did learn the lesson by allowing, again, bin laden to have the sanctuary on their soil when the 9/11 attacks were planned in afghanistan. af...

Him. maybe they thought were the government here now, we can do whatever you like, we can have i guess is we. which maybe they thought perhaps al-qaeda was no longer target. but certainly they clearly. our u.s. never forgot 9/11, and clearly is still pursuing justice. but is a very important moment for afghanistan here too. because remember, the taliban said we dont have foreign fighters in this country, we will not allow al-qaeda to be here. well, you cant get much more close with al-qaeda then...

Al zawahiri out saturday evening d.c. time, eastern time, with the two hell fire missiles that ben talked about. and president biden was updated when it started and when it concluded. and senior administration officials say there were no civilian casualties and of course we cant just underplay how momentous this is for president biden happening just almost a year really after the u.s. pulled out of afghanistan. >> jasmine, ben, thank you both. lets bring in national security analyst julia kine...

Over the horizon types of attack and there were many of us that said yeah, the military and the intelligence community is much better than that. dont underrate their capabilities and, yeah, its tougher because you dont have the so-called reconnaissance on the target. you dont have the so-called eyes on the target, but still there is the capability as phil just said to target signals intelligence, human intelligence from other areas other than just u.s. forces on the ground. there are, you know, ...

Casualties when conducting the strike. the senior administration official says that al-zawahiri was killed while he was standing on the balcony of this safe house with two hellfire missiles. but over the course of the last several months, including a july 1st meeting inside the situation room, intelligence officials brought in a small scale model of the safe house that they brought to the president to describe to him how exactly they could conduct this strike with a drone and ensure that the bui...

Country. they have a right to come to the united states, the taliban have not been abiding by that agreement. at the same time, we have to work with what we have. were not going to go back into afghanistan. we could not occupy a country again that the american public will not stand for it, nor do we know it will be in our best interests considering what were dealing with in russia and china right now. but we have to put in the resources that were currently doing, which is focusing on horizon cap...

From afghanistan last year. you will recall that at the time president biden was announcing that withdrawal he bowed that the united states would still maintain, quote, overturn the horizon capabilities. what are over the horizon capabilities? it is exactly what we saw this past weekend. with the ability to carry out this drone strike. the president, and administration officials had said, that even without boots on the ground they would make sure that they have the capability to go after terrori...

Work, but they were aware of his presence in kabul, and the capital city. but settles a whole lot of questions. not only did this officials say thats a violation of the doha agreement that led to the withdrawal of troops. -- not allow terrorist groups to have a safe haven in afghanistan. but it now raises questions about the future, potentially, of u.s. taliban relations. something that is potentially been on the horizon in the long term. now, all of that very much, even more in question with al...

International studies. he was also an adviser in afghanistan. great to have you here. how big of a blow is this to al qaeda? >> well, its a pretty serious blow. it was one thing to kill bin laden. zawahiri was with bin laden from the beginning and was very influential in providing sochl of the chief religious texts and ran it since bin ladens death. so this puts al qaeda in a the bit of a bind at its leadership level. there are some possibilities of who could take over the organization, but no o...

Accountability. the strike itself tells them, shows them how serious we are about our desire never to see afghanistan become a safe haven again for launches -- the launch of attacks against our homeland, and it shows them the degree to which were capable of doing this without boots on the ground. and that were going to be able to maintain that capability going forward. you called it a finite resource. i wont disagree with you. obviously all military resources are in effect finite. you can number...