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June 24, 2011

Sizing Up bin Laden's Successor

Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal

It was Ayman al-Zawahiri who decreed that it was just to strike the 'far enemy' - the United States.

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TAGGED: Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden

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