Just over a decade ago, Mr Joe Biden advised the Obama administration, in which he served as vice-president, against authorising the commando operation in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network.
Now that he has inherited Mr Barack Obama's seat in the Oval Office, President Biden has taken credit for ordering the killing of Osama's successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri. "I promised the Americans that we would continue to take effective action against terrorism in Afghanistan and other countries, and that's exactly what we did," a triumphant Mr Biden said.
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