After the loss of its supreme leader, Osama Bin Laden, experts are unsure whether this will weaken their mission and impact on satellite terror cells (Infoplease.com, 2015). However, Pike (2015) affirms the undeniable influence of Al-Qaeda as a terrorist network as it still has autonomous cells in over 100 countries and is financing training and logistical developments for Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya, the Philippines, Somalia and Yemen (Pike, 2015). Regarding Al-Qaeda, President Obama admitted that the ‘principal threat no longer comes from a centralized Al Qaeda leadership [but] from decentralized Al Qaeda affiliates and extremists, many with agendas focused in the countries where they operate’ (Humud, 2015, p.1).The leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, discussed plans to create a Muslim caliphate in the Indian sub-continent, taking advantage of the fragility of the existing social structure and the large Muslim population (Pike,
After the loss of its supreme leader, Osama Bin Laden, experts are unsure whether this will weaken their mission and impact on satellite terror cells (Infoplease.com, 2015). However, Pike (2015) affirms the undeniable influence of Al-Qaeda as a terrorist network as it still has autonomous cells in over 100 countries and is financing training and logistical developments for Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya, the Philippines, Somalia and Yemen (Pike, 2015). Regarding Al-Qaeda, President Obama admitted that the ‘principal threat no longer comes from a centralized Al Qaeda leadership [but] from decentralized Al Qaeda affiliates and extremists, many with agendas focused in the countries where they operate’ (Humud, 2015, p.1).The leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, discussed plans to create a Muslim caliphate in the Indian sub-continent, taking advantage of the fragility of the existing social structure and the large Muslim population (Pike,