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Al Qaeda’s latest bomb plot highlights the shape of future threats

  May 09, 2012

Last week, on the one year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, the United States released the terrorist mastermind’s communications during his last years in hiding. Bin Laden knew he no longer had control over Al Qaeda. The splintered terrorist network may not have been capable of a large-scale, coordinated attack like 9/11, but through isolated bombings it could still wreak havoc. Stopping those attacks is the challenge bin Laden bequeathed the world, upon his death.

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