This weekend marks 10 years since Osama bin Laden, the organizer of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, was killed by US special forces - Seal Team 6. His name and the name of his al-Qaeda terrorist network marked the era of reaction and US retaliation that overshadows any previous counterterrorism policy.
America's "War on Terror" is about to enter a new phase as President Joe Biden began withdrawing all US troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, but now al Qaeda says its war with America is far away from completion.
In an exclusive intermediary interview with CNN, an al-Qaeda spokesman said that "the war against the US will continue on all other fronts unless American soldiers are expelled from the rest of the Islamic world."
In the past, al-Qaeda has rarely answered questions, preferring instead to hide behind its own selfish propaganda, dodging even the most remote scrutiny. It is unclear why the group chose to do this now.
Terrorism analyst Paul Crookshank, editor-in-chief of CTC Sentinel at West Point who has studied al-Qaeda responses, says that perhaps “they feel support for the Biden administration’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, but they may also seek to divert attention from many recent losses. "