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Terror Networks
Whatever Happened to Al Qaeda?
2023-08-06
[ForeignPolicy] The once-powerful organization’s disappearance from headlines and the broader foreign-policy conversation is remarkable.

On July 31, 2022, a U.S. dronezap killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
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Posted by:trailing wife

#7  ^^^ I believe it was mentioned here at the Burg that perhaps the check didn't clear, or something to that effect.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-08-06 20:07  

#6  /\ UBL was likely months behind on the rent of his Abbottabad gov't Safe House. The US government made good on the lease and evicted the penniless occupants.

More news at 11:00
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-08-06 14:03  

#5  They were nearly out of funds when UBL got whacked.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-08-06 13:56  

#4  ^ what #3 said. The organization is bankrupt but the concept lives on.
Posted by: magpie   2023-08-06 10:29  

#3  Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Assets sold off, back in business under new management.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-08-06 09:45  

#2  Solved the 'Branch Davidian' problem didn't they? Never hear much from those people anymore.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-08-06 08:36  

#1  "...more agressive FBI efforts..." Oh yeah, like the period between the attacks on American embassies in Africa and 9/11. Essay written by Daniel Byman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. And notable FBI bum-kisser.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355   2023-08-06 08:01  

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