The AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground guided missile was built to kill tanks. On July 31, 2022, two of them, launched from a United States Air Force unmanned drone over Afghanistan, killed Ayman al-Zawahiri instead. Al Zawahiri had been leader of al Qaeda since the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. In bin Laden’s time he was the organisation’s operational brain. On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 flying from the Philippines to China disappeared over the Indian Ocean. While traces of its debris have washed up as far off as Africa, the term “disappeared” remains all we can say about it today. The plane’s resting place has never been found. Yet, we did know a few things back then. Three years after the…