We have not quite finished with bin Laden.
Bin Laden’s legacy AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI Symbolic as the death of the al-Qaeda leader is, it does not mark the end of the fight against terrorism, nor of its consequences for our way of life, writes Le Monde. Adam Yahive Gadahn As luck would have it, perhaps. The man who embodied international jihadism died just as the “Arab Spring” was dealing a blow to this totalitarian fantasy. Since the Arab peoples are rising up in the name of democracy, not Islam or any return to the Caliphate advocated by al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden was already dead in the water politically. It was almost the second death of the al-Qaeda founder that was announced on Sunday night, May 1, by President Barack Obama as he revealed that U.S. special forces had killed bin Laden in Pakistan. The first death certificate of the Saudi dissident, the political one, could be read in the slogans of the demonstrators in Tunis and Cairo. What shone through was not hatred of the West, of “the Crusaders and Jews”, ...