Dr. Evil: Terrorism Alert Puts bin Laden’s Successor Back in the Spotlight

Time: For the past the two years, Ayman al-Zawahiri had been lying low. When Navy SEALs paid a visit to Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011, and killed Osama bin Laden, they lethally promoted the Egyptian doctor, then bin Laden’s deputy, into the role of al-Qaeda’s new leader. Since then, government officials have fretted less about al-Zawahiri and the Pakistan-based remnants of bin Laden’s original team than about al-Qaeda’s emerging affiliates in the Middle East and North Africa, including the fearsome al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

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