The Trials of the Century
The fifth anniversary of 9/11 has come and gone, but there was a conspicuous figure missing from the retrospectives and commentaries: Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda’s founder has clearly been marginalized even in his own movement, as other jihadist spokesmen, Ayman al-Zawahri and an American, Adam Gadahn, issued threats and demanded that Americans convert to Islam. Meantime, Pakistan has negotiated a truce with tribal chiefs promising to keep troops out of the Waziristan districts, where the leadership of Al Qaeda may be hiding, and the C.I.A. has closed Alec Station, the unit devoted to finding Mr. bin Laden. He is the forgotten man.… Seguir leyendo »