Bin Laden Is Dead? What about Al Qaeda?

Heritage Explains

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4.7 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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With the recent report that Osama Bin Laden's son, Hamza Bin Laden, is dead, we wanted to know what that means for the future of Al Qaeda. This week we talk with Heritage expert Robin Simcox, and dive deep into how the US is doing in the fight against terror both at home and abroad. Hint: more needs to be done. Show Notes:https://www.heritage.org/terrorism/commentary/osama-bin-ladens-son-likely-dead-heres-what-it-means

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0:00.0	From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.
0:40.8	Just close your eyes for a second and remember where you were at 9 a.m. on September 11th, 2001.
0:44.0	What?
0:45.4	The 737?
0:46.5	It was.
0:48.2	What are you talking to?
0:49.4	Oh, God.
0:50.9	Oh, my God.
0:55.0	For those who can remember, it was unreal.
1:02.6	The first hit was confusion, but after the second, third, and fourth planes came down,
1:12.0	it was clear this was coordinated, and those behind it were completely determined to destroy our way of life as free people.
1:14.9	Everything had changed.
1:20.3	It was me. I just want to let you know. I love you. And I'm stuck in my soul in New York.
1:24.7	There's lots of smoke and we just wanted you to know that I love you always. It was soon after we learned that Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist network al-Qaeda, was responsible for the attacks.
1:37.0	And with that, President Bush made clear our intentions to bring justice.
1:52.0	Osama bin Laden is just one person. He is representative of networks of people who absolutely have made their cause
1:59.0	to defeat the freedoms that we take that we understand.
2:02.7	And we will not allow him to do so.
2:04.8	I want him, I want justice.
2:08.1	And there's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said wanted, dead or alive.
2:15.5	Well, time passed, and the war on terror continued.
2:20.2	But Osama bin Laden remained on the lamb until 2011 when this happened.
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