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Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA unit responsible for tracking Osama bin Laden, discusses al-Qaeda's cadre of new leaders.
Interviewee: Jarret Brachman
Interviewer: Eben Kaplan
March 27, 2007
Jarret Brachman, who tracks terrorist ideologies at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center, says al-Qaeda's figureheads are not among the most influential jihadi thinkers.
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