The U.S. announced it had conducted a drone strike on July 31 killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul. But social media posts make unfounded claims that al-Zawahiri had died in 2020 from asthma. The posts cite an unconfirmed story in a British tabloid, which reported a year later that al-Zawahiri was still alive.
Issues: Al Qaeda
Trump’s False Claims About Rep. Ilhan Omar
Trump’s ISIS Conspiracy Theory
Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Did Obama Declare Terrorist Threat ‘Gone’?
False Claims in Final Debate
‘Daisy’ Redux
The Republican National Committee’s latest ad – a 2006 version of President Johnson’s famous 1964 “Daisy” commercial against Barry Goldwater – invokes the threat of a nuclear attack by al Qaeda.
Distortions and Misstatements At First Presidential Debate
Bush and Kerry both have problems with the facts at their meeting in Coral Gables.