Osama Bin Laden And Al-ZawahiriNine Years After 9/11, al-Qaeda Is Exercising More Power Than Ever Before -- Praveen Swami, The Telegraph
Nine years after the tragic events of 9/11, al-Qaeda has lost much of its top leadership, commands just a few hundred fighters and is strapped for cash. Paradoxically enough, it also probably exercises more power than at any point the past.
From the north-western Himalayas to the deserts that surrounds Timbuktu, al-Qaeda’s message has been taken up by a new generation of jihadist leaders I call ‘Baby bin-Ladens’. In the main, the new al-Qaeda subsidiaries are led by Islamists who participated in the anti-Soviet Union jihad in Afghanistan, and went on to found jihadist movements in their own countries.
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My Comment: Not much that I can disagree with in Praveen Swami analysis on Al Qaeda.