CNN Interviews The Brother Of The Man Who Now Heads Al Qaeda

The brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mohamed al-Zawahiri. CNN

CNN Interviews Mohamed al Zawahiri -- Threat Matrix

Post-Mubarak Egypt presents a number of counterterrorism challenges for the US and its allies. An unknown number of terrorists belonging to the al Qaeda-allied al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya and Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) have been freed from jail. And new jihadist groups, some openly proclaiming their allegiance to al Qaeda, now operate in the Sinai. (See here, here, here and here.)

The situation is so conspicuous that Mohamed al Zawahiri, the younger brother of al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri, has been freed from jail and is secure enough in his new life that he granted an interview to CNN. The younger Zawahiri says that al Qaeda has not been defeated and the organization's strength is "not in its leaders but in its ideology."

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My Comment: He is 100% right when he says that the Al Qaeda's strength is "not in its leaders but in its ideology" .... and this is why (in my opinion) the West has had difficulty in defeating this radical version of Islam. The fact that the U.S. and it's allies try their best to not even use the term "radical Islam" when defining Al Qaeda is revealing .... how can you defeat an ideology when you refuse to even define it.

Kudos to CNN in getting this interview. It gives an insight into how Al Qaeda thinks, and why millions of Muslims support them.