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Al zawahiri, analysts say he lacks bin laden s charisma. he s viewed as a polarizing figure, someone not easy to deal with, not a good manager. al awalaki is seen to have commanded the airline plot. his achilles heel. he s not a fighter. he s a cleric. he s a speaker. and not a fighter. and al qaeda over the years have wanted to be led by a fighter. reporter: credentials bin laden had from his years battling the soviets in afghanistan. but other dangerous figures could surface including saif al adal who is believed to have played a key role in the african embassy bomb also. al libi who rose to prominence for escaping from bagram air base. and a well connected bin laden ....
States. but now that bin laden is gone, al qaeda really has lost its dominant force, its strategic guide, and bin laden, in past years, has really signed off on the biggest al qaeda operations. for example, the 2006 airline plot, according to western intelligence officials, and a plot last fall against europe. so bin laden has still been operationally involved in some of these bigger attempts, michael. paul krukshank, fran townsend, and peter bergen, thanks. today, we ll see how the markets are reacting to news of bol osama bin laden s death. she felt lost. ....
Just past the bottom of the hour, and a quick look at what is driving this monday. 15 days left before the mid terms, and major names hitting the campaign trail from coast-to-coast. and president obama leads the fund razor in tonight maryland. and then sarah palin also on the trail today, including house speaker, nancy pelosi, as well. new terror threats in europe. saudi officials are warning france of a potential attack by al qaeda in yemen, and the same affiliate of the failed plot on the airline plot. the markets are open as we start a busy week of reports on corporate earning. ....
An al qaeda captive in afghanistan. the spectrum of information suggests that we needed to put something out to warn people about the potential for attacks. reporter: what might be the target? tourist attractions like the vatican, big train stations in europe are well guarded. another 9/11 would be tougher to pull off than london 05, a bus and subways hit. if they want to cook up a bomb in their kitchen or pick up a gun and shoot someone, that s far more difficult to stop than a sophisticated airline plot. officials most fear something like the jihad attack in india. 480 people killed or wounded by ten gunmen in a three-day nightmare. i m steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. meanwhile, in germany, a u.s. drone strike has reportedly killed five nationals. last night on the rachel madow show, rachel asked michael ....
I d say there are three types of operatives we look at. one is the hard core, well trained operative that would be used in a major attack, the kind of thing which happened on 9/11 or which they tried to pull off with the airline plot in 2006. the next level is the person who s brought in, they re not necessarily given access to the core al qaeda, but they are given some basic training and trade craft and launched back to use their western passport. that is perhaps this case, the zazi case. the third category is the person who gets on the internet and gets radicalized, they go off and do what they can accomplish on their own. that was the ft. hood shooting. we re going to have to build a capability to anticipate each of these different kinds of operations in putting together our intelligence program. that was of course former homeland security secretary ....