The former chief of the CIA?s Osama bin Laden unit is pushing back against suggestions that al-Qaeda is on the brink of collapse, and that its new leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, isn?t up to the task.
Michael Scheuer, who ran the unit from 1996 to 1999, says in a provocative new essay that, while Zawahiri is taking charge of al-Qaeda in difficult circumstances, he is inheriting an organization that was built to last. Bin Laden, he argues, created a network that ?could survive both a war against the U.S. superpower backed by its NATO vassals and his own capture or death.?
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