America's message: The enemy can never escape

On the night of Tuesday, it became known that al-Zawahri was killed in central Kabul, in a drone attack led by the American intelligence service CIA.

Jan Hallenberg, research advisor at the Foreign Policy Institute and expert on US security policy, emphasizes that the US wants to show its enemies that they cannot go anywhere safe.

- If they have carried out things that al-Zawahiri has participated in, they will search for him to the ends of the earth.

The American power can reach him wherever he is, he says in Aktuellt.

Found this option

Trying to arrest and bring al-Zawahri to justice was probably not an option, says Hallenberg.

- The US tried it with Osama bin Laden in 2011. The soldiers were going to take him, but he resisted until he was killed.

I think the same with IS leader al-Baghdadi in 2019. They tried to take him, but he resisted and was killed.

In this case, where the US has no ability to put troops on the ground, I think there was only this option.