{"id":46992,"date":"2022-08-02T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/ayman-al-zawahiri-kabul-neighbourhood-al-qaida-leader-dead-sherpur"},"modified":"2022-08-02T22:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:32:22","slug":"inside-the-elite-kabul-neighbourhood-where-al-qaidas-leader-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46992","title":{"rendered":"Inside the elite Kabul neighbourhood where al-Qaida\u2019s leader died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherpur, with its gaudy \u2018poppy palaces\u2019, has hosted warlords, US contractors and now the Taliban\u2019s top tier<\/p>\n<p>The leader of al-Qaida spent the last weeks of his life less than 500 metres from the swimming pool and bar where British diplomats relaxed during their Kabul tours.<\/p>\n<p>The gaudy house where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/us-strike-afghanistan-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri\">Ayman al-Zawahiri was reportedly killed by a drone strike <\/a>while out on his balcony is nestled at the very heart of the Afghan capital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/ayman-al-zawahiri-kabul-neighbourhood-al-qaida-leader-dead-sherpur\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherpur, with its gaudy \u2018poppy palaces\u2019, has hosted warlords, US contractors and now the Taliban\u2019s top tierThe leader of al-Qaida spent the last weeks of his life less than 500 metres from the swimming pool and bar where British diplomats relaxed durin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,487,2333,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-ayman-al-zawahiri","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46992\/revisions\/47023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}