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Al Qaeda’s toughest task

Slain jihadi leaders like Ilyas Kashmiri and Osama bin Laden aren’t so easily replaced. Read the rest of the article here.

By , a senior associate fellow at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute and a visiting senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
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Slain jihadi leaders like Ilyas Kashmiri and Osama bin Laden aren't so easily replaced.

Slain jihadi leaders like Ilyas Kashmiri and Osama bin Laden aren’t so easily replaced.

Read the rest of the article here.

Raffaello Pantucci is a senior associate fellow at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute and a visiting senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and the co-author of Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire, with Alexandros Petersen. Twitter: @raffpantucci

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