'Baby Bin Ladens' Posing New Threat To West -- The Telegraph
A new generation of jihad chieftains dubbed the "Baby bin-Ladens" are helping al-Qaeda to acquire unprecedented capabilities to stage attacks against the West, intelligence officials are warning.
Just as the established al-Qaeda leadership has been degraded by targeted attacks in Afghanistan, a new generation of leaders has helped the jihadist threat grow from Pakistan's north-west to Timbuktu – raising fears that the war against Islamist terrorism could drag on for decades.
Intelligence experts are warning that figures such as Pakistan-based Muhammad Illyas Kashmiri, Yemen's Anwar al-Awlaki, and Somalia's Ahmed Abdi Godane, have drawn thousands of fighters to their al-Qaeda affiliated groups – far more than Osama bin-Laden ever commanded.
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My Comment: Talk about a personality cult .... but Bin Laden has it in spades.
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