Bin Laden And Deputy - Are they in command?

August 14, 2006

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Like some terrorist version of broadcast pundits, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri address the world by video or audio every few weeks, exhorting their followers to jihad, taunting their enemies and offering sometimes grandiose commentary on current events.

Whether that is all they can do from their hideouts in Pakistan is a question that intelligence officials in the United States and Europe are urgently trying to answer.

“They keep informed - that is clear,” said Olivier Roy, research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research and an expert on Islamist terror networks. “Whether they have any operational role is very hard to say.”

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