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And this is something as your question indicated.

The United States has been doing since 9-11.

It's been trying to go after not just the bin Laden's,

not just the people who plant bombs,

but the senior recruiters, the senior trainers, the senior planners.

And these are the people that gave al-Qaeda its depth

that made it such a dangerous organization.

Using one of the reasons that al-Qaeda has been far less effective

in global operations, my most effective attacks on the US and attacks on Europe

is because people like al-Masri have been killed or otherwise taken out of the game.

And so this is part of the US strategy is to go after a fairly broad swath of these people

and it's been fairly effective in the relatively narrow terms we're talking about for counterterrorism.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast, November 17th, 2020.

The world's most dangerous job apparently has a vacancy once again.

Al-Qaeda's number two has reportedly been killed in Iran by Israeli forces acting on US intelligence.

In addition, there are some rumors about Al-Qaeda's number one.

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