The US had multiple options for the attack. 9News
Last weekend, the US did just that —Other high-profile airstrikes in the past had inadvertently killed innocent civilians.
That potential use of the R9X, said Klon Kitchen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former intelligence analyst, suggests the US wanted to kill Zawahiri with "limited likelihood of collateral death and destruction and for other relevant political reasons."What is a Hellfire missile?
More than 100,000 Hellfire missiles have been sold to the US and other countries, according to Ryan Brobst, an analyst at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, a Washington think tank. Online images of the building show damage to the balcony, where the US says Zawahiri was, but the rest of the house is standing and not badly damaged.Unlike other models of the Hellfire, the R9X doesn't carry an explosive payload.
Less than a year ago, a US drone strike — using a more conventional Hellfire missile — struck a white Toyota Corolla sedan in a Kabul neighbourhood and killed 10 civilians around and near the car, including seven children.
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