Trump had the chance to kill Al Qaeda's leader but didn't because he didn't recognize the name, repo

[Eugene]

Original reporting from 2020: Trump pushed CIA to find, kill Osama bin Laden's son over higher priority targets (NBC News)

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Source: Insider

Trump had the chance to kill Al Qaeda's leader but didn't because he didn't recognize the name, report says

Sophia Ankel
Tue, August 2, 2022 at 8:32 AM·3 min read

President Donald Trump had the chance to kill the leader of Al Qaeda but didn't because he didn't recognize the terrorist leader's name, NBC News reported in 2020.

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But plans for al-Zawahiri's execution could have been carried out far earlier, according to an NBC News report published in February 2020.

Intelligence officials briefed Trump many times about senior terrorist figures the CIA wanted to track down and kill, mentioning al-Zawahiri, NBC News reported.

Two people familiar with the briefings told NBC News that Trump chose not to pursue al-Zawahiri because he didn't recognize his name and instead suggested targeting bin Laden's son, Hamza bin Laden.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-had-chance-kill-al-123256147.html

[gab13by13]

1. That's not really why he didn't kill Zawahiri,

Putin told him not to.

[live love laugh]

2. My thinking too. Their BS shouldn't be taken at face value.

[underpants]

3. Let me offer this - glasses and time

There is one picture as far as I know of Trump wearing reading glasses while POTUS. He’s not exactly a reader anyway. He didn’t read the intel on who this was because he didn’t want to wear glasses and of course his “executive time” was spent tweeting as well as doing his hair and makeup.

The other factor could be that he didn’t think it was a name people would know...so why? (In his mind)

[dchill]

6. Yeah, we know. 😜

[Blue Owl]

4. Dump had more important things to do -- like taking a shit in his golden toilet

[Jarqui]

5. ... on top of documents he was illegally flushing ...