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Al-Rahman's Death Major Blow to Al Qaeda
BY MATT BRADLEY
The death of Al Qaeda's second-in-command last week represents a major blow to Al Qaeda and its central leadership, but is unlikely to damage the group's largely independent chapters throughout the Muslim world, said an expert on extermist Islam, Omar Ashour.
Mr. Ashour, a professor of Middle East Studies at Exeter University, said the death of Atiyah Abdel al-Rahman, a Libyan national, removes one of the only remaining figures in the Al Qaeda leadership who could serve as both an ideological guide and an operational leader.
An Obama administration official said that Mr. Abdel al-Rahman, who recently became deputy to ...
