Analysis from Canada’s Globe and Mail:
Sporting his thick, greying beard, a black turban and metal-rimmed glasses, it was the seventh video that Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda founder and right-hand jihadist to Osama bin Laden, has recorded since June, a period during which Mr. bin Laden has made no public statements at all.And then there’s this not-dead guy: “Last Wednesday, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may have slipped into a coma.”
That, experts and acquaintances say, likely means something's gone awry inside al-Qaeda. Some speculate the world's second-most wanted man, a pioneer in the use of suicide bombings and martyr videos, has become the group's new No. 1.
Give up already. Fidel will outlive you, me, Dick Clark, and Tony Bennett.
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