Pakistani media personnel and local residents gather outside the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011.

Bin Laden-ism and Its Heirs

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 4, 2017

Ali Soufan, former FBI special agent, counter-terrorism expert and interrogator, now the author of Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), retraces the rise and fall of al Qaeda and the groups that formed in its wake.

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