(MENAFN- IANS)
Islamabad, Aug 4 (IANS) The American drone that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul was possibly launched from an airbase in Kyrgyzstan, some US media reports claimed.
The reports claimed that the attack was launched from Ganci Airbase, a US transit facility at Manas in northern Kyrgyzstan, says Dawn news.
According to the US Department of Defence, Ganci is a former American military base in Kyrgyzstan, near the Bishkek international airport.
It was operated by the US Air Force, which handed it over to the Kyrgyz military in June 2014.
The national Public Radio, America’s largest radio news network, noted that US officials were not saying where they launched the drone from, ‘but the US no longer has any military bases in the immediate region, suggesting the aircraft may have flown a long distance before reaching its…
