Photo: Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri. Saeed Khan / AFP-Getty ImagesThe New Bin Laden -- Newsweek
The terrorist behind recent scares in Europe and America has a grim record—and a knack for staying alive.
Evil geniuses are a rare breed, even in the ranks of Al Qaeda. Those few who planned the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen 10 years ago and the atrocities in America on September 11, 2001, were killed or captured by the spring of 2003, and Osama bin Laden has been hard pressed ever since to recruit anyone able to take their place. But now, at last, he seems to have found his man, and that’s a major reason intelligence services from Washington to Paris to Islamabad have been acting so jittery of late.
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My Comment: Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri and those like him are far more dangerous than individuals like Bin Laden. They are in the field, and they get their hands dirty .... an easy feat since they have the resources and contacts to conduct terror attacks.
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