Fawaz A. Gerges is Director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and author of The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda.
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Fawaz A. Gerges is Director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and author of The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda.
News of Osama bin Laden’s killing by U.S. special forces has sunk in. News of al Qaeda’s demise has not.
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