Bin Laden's Symbolic Death Won't End Extremism
Steven Cook, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, expects that bin Laden's death will not have a ...
Speaker: Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, CFR
May 2, 2011
Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, says that bin Laden's death helps the drive for democracy in the Middle East and weakens the influence of al-Qaeda in the Arab world.
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