The repetition, in recent years, of false rumors about the death of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has probably enabled the leadership of the jihadist movement to prepare his succession.
Several names are circulating to take up the post-Zawahiri challenge at the head of a largely decentralized organization, whose power is no longer as important as it was twenty years ago.
The Egyptian Saif al-Adel is theoretically, in the hierarchy of the "central command" of al-Qaeda, the one who should take the reins.
“But others can claim this position
,” notes Bill Roggio, researcher with the American think-tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Like other specialists, he cites Abdel Rahman al-Maghrebi, a Moroccan son-in-law of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Yazid Mebrak, leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Ahmed Diriye, the head of the jihadist branch. in East Africa.
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