Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri speaks from an unknown location, in this still image taken from video uploaded on a social media website June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV
The Coming of Al Qaeda 3.0 -- Bruce Riedel, Daily Beast
The global terror alert shows the jihadists aren’t just alive and well—they are thriving. Bruce Riedel on the birth of a new terror generation.
In case anyone needed reminding, the recent global terror alert illustrates that, 15 years after its first attacks on America, Al Qaeda is thriving. The coup in Egypt and the chaotic aftermath of the Arab awakening is only going to add more militants to this army of radicals. Failed revolutions and failing states are like incubators for the jihadists, a sort of Pandora’s Box of hostility and alienation.
The news that al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and his man in Yemen, Nasr al Wuhayshi, were communicating and hatching plots to attack Western targets in the region is no surprise. Like any CEO of a multinational company, Zawahiri is in regular communication with al Qaeda’s half dozen regional franchises—just as Osama bin Laden was before he was killed.
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My Comment: This is a more up-to-date assessment from Bruce Riedel's. His previous analysis on Al Qaeda 3.0 was with AFP this past January and on a post with the Daily Beast last December.
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