Thursday, June 16, 2011

Bin Laden's Replacement

Bruce Riedel, The Daily Beast
Ayman al-Zawahiri is Al Qaeda's thinker"”its key ideological spokesman and analyst"”but he is also a ruthless operative who has masterminded terrorist attacks for three decades. The group he inherits is on the defensive but far from defeated. Since the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month, jihadist chat rooms and websites have buzzed with calls for Zawahiri to become the new amir of Al Qaeda. Now the general command of al Qaeda't al-Jihad, as the group is formally known, has made it official and announced he is the amir.Zawahiri was born...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/16/bin_laden039s_replacement_257546.html

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