Al-Qaeda's Looming Threat: Are We Looking Over the Wrong Horizon?

Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden in November, 2001. (Hamid Mir, https://tinyurl.com/4dkj5d5d; Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

As the world watches Russia’s war in Ukraine, events in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia are heating up. A dozen years after the death of Osama bin Laden, his dreams and plans of another attack against the United States—with effects that would far exceed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks—may be close to coming true, and an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism strategy might …

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