At 9:48 pm ET on Saturday night, July 31, the US executed a complex counter-terrorism operation to find and eliminate Al-Qaida’s current leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. A senior administration official confirmed that the most wanted terrorist after 9/11 was located in a safe house in Kabul with his family before he was killed. Ayman al-Zawahiri was Osama bin Laden’s deputy during the 9/11 attack and his successor following President Obama’s successful US counter-terrorism mission in June 2011. After years of hiding, the US collected intelligence to “confirm with confidence” that Ayman al-Zawahiri wa…