Spinning Bin Laden at large

I wonder it took them so long.

“He’s turning into more of a charismatic leader than a terrorist mastermind. [...] Some of his lieutenants are the ones to worry about. [...] You can make the argument that we’re better off with him (at large), [...] Because if something happens to Bin Laden, you might find a lot of people vying for his position and demonstrating how macho they are by unleashing a stream of terror. [...] -- AB “Buzzy” Krongard, who stepped down six weeks ago as the CIA’s third most senior executive

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"Killed, he will be a martyr, maybe even more powerful. [...] Even if we would have arrested him in Tora Bora, it would have been already too late because he had already brought down the World Trade Centre. After this 'magnificent' act, his ideology had already metastased." --Steve Simon, former head of the Transnational Threats division of the US National Security Council, now an analyst with Rand Corporation

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