Who's in charge of Al Qaeda? Why there won't be another Osama Bin Laden
The current leader of the terrorist group, the Egyptian Saif al Adel, operates in the shadows from Iran. The successes of the war undertaken by the United States have prevented the veteran jihadist from being even publicly named as head of the terrorist network.
US Navy Seals found 6,000 pages linked to Al Qaeda during their May 2, 2011 operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama Bin Laden was killed. The documents included a letter written by Atiyad Abd al Rahman to Bin Laden, dated July 2010, requesting the release of three terrorist leaders. One of them, Saif al Adel, an Egyptian former military officer, was under house arrest in Iran. Al Adel is now the leader of Al Qaeda, in the shadows, 11 years after Ayman al Zawahiri's death.
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