Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri should have been brought to trial for 9/11, not assassinated

For all those Americans and others who are celebrating the assassination of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, they should take time to reflect on these words: seek vengeance, dig two graves.

Osama bin Laden, left, pictured on Nov. 8, 2001, with his adviser Ayman al-Zawahiri during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir. The CIA assassinated bin Laden in a raid in 2011, and al-Zawahiri was killed on July 31, 2022, when his house in Kabul, Afghanistan, was hit with a Hellfire missile drone strike. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

August 8, 2022

HALIFAX—For all those Americans and others who are celebrating the assassination of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, they should take time to reflect on these words: seek vengeance, dig two graves. What the CIA did in Afghanistan undoubtedly pleased millions of Americans who saw it as justice f...

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