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Hamza bin Laden: the end of a dynasty, but not al-Qaida

Osama bin Laden’s son was being groomed to be new leader of group responsible for 9/11
Anti-US protesters carry a portrait of Osama Bin Laden at a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, in September 2001. Photograph: Visual News/Getty Images

For most of the decade that followed the 9/11 attacks in 2001, hardly a day passed without news about al-Qaida. In the last year, by contrast, the Guardian has mentioned the group 11 times.

The event that has put it back in the spotlight is not a terrorist strike against the “Crusader-Zionist alliance” or.

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