Osama bin Laden (Reuters / Str Old)
Stealth Search: Embattled Al Qaeda Hunts for a New Bin Laden -- NBC
Battered and on the run, al Qaeda is quietly looking for a charismatic leader capable of taking command when Ayman al-Zawahri’s tenure comes to what will likely be a violent end. And just as quietly, the U.S. intelligence community is searching for that same man -– so they can kill him.
The deadly game, which is unfolding in places like the ungovernable border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the deserts of Yemen and the battlefields of Syria, comes at a critical moment for al Qaeda, according to U.S. officials and counterterrorism experts.
The Islamic terrorist organization founded in the early 1980s by Osama bin Laden is desperately in need of cash and fighting the widespread perception that it is irrelevant in an era where most of its affiliated groups are focused on regional conflicts, not landing blows against world powers.
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My Comment: The problem for those who may aspire to be the next Bin Laden is that they are probably going to be killed before they have attained such a status. Here are six potential al Qaeda leaders who have been eliminated since the Bin Laden raid.
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