The killing of Osama bin Laden has plunged al-Qaeda’s core leadership into a decline it will be hard to reverse, according to an American intelligence report
The report included statistics showing
that the overall number of terrorist attacks worldwide fell to 10,283
last year from 11,641 in 2010
In its annual Country Reports on Terrorism, the State Department described
2011 as a “landmark year”, with the deaths of Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, the
group’s deputy leader and Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior figure of its affiliate
in Yemen, among other high-profile casualties.
It warned however that affiliates in Yemen and West Africa pose a growing
threat to the West.
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