No such thing as the OBL effect: Why Al Qaida struggles to retaliate against the West.

Stills taken from Bin Laden's last official video statement in July 2007. Since then, the ideological figurehead of Al Qaida had only gone public in audio statements, a likely effect of the manhunt against him. The common jihadi was predictably taken aback: When Osama bin Laden was shot dead in Pakistan in the wee hours of 2 May 2011, it took religious extremists on the internet a couple of days to regain their collective composure. Hours after... Read More