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“Core” al-Qaida is now reduced to a senior leadership of six to eight men, including Bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to most informed estimates. Several other Egyptians, a Libyan and a Mauritanian occupy the other top positions. In all, there are perhaps 200 operatives who count.

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“You haven’t lost all those people who were susceptible to the al-Qaida message, ideology or recruitment,” said Richard Barrett, co-ordinator of the UN’s al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team. “The [al-Qaida leadership] are really under pressure now but could regroup. The conditions remain there, the social factors are all still in place.”

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/al-qaida-terrorism-bin-laden

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/al-qaida-recruitment-crisis/print