For a year, US officials have been saying that taking out a terrorist threat in Afghanistan with no American troops on the ground would be difficult but not impossible.Last weekend, the US did just that — killing Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri with a CIA drone strike.Other high-profile airstrikes in the past had inadvertently killed innocent civilians. In this case, the US carefully chose to use a type of Hellfire missile that greatly minimized the chance of other casualties.
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