Is Al Qaeda Finished?

Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Advisor and second in command to Bin Laden (when he was alive). Head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad group.

Al-Qaeda Targets Dwindle As Group Shrinks -- Washington Post

The leadership ranks of the main al-Qaeda terrorist network, once expansive enough to supervise the plot for Sept. 11, 2001, have been reduced to just two figures whose demise would mean the group’s defeat, U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence officials said.

Ayman al-Zawahiri and his second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, are the last remaining “high-value” targets of the CIA’s drone campaign against al-Qaeda in Pakistan, U.S. officials said, although lower-level fighters and other insurgent groups remain a focus of Predator surveillance and strikes.

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My Comment: You cannot kill an idea .... especially a religious one. Al Qaeda and its off-shoots are going to be with us for a very long time, even when their last remaining leaders are gone.