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“He’s a warrior. He’s a poet. He’s a scholar. He’s a pundit. He’s a military commander. And he’s a very charismatic, young, brash rising star within A.Q., and I think he has become the heir apparent to Osama bin Laden in terms of taking over the entire global jihadist movement.”

So claims a US security analyst when speaking of Al Qaeda supposed new star leader in Afghanistan. Interesting how the Americans always have to mythologise the enemy, much as they exaggerated the strategic threat posed by the Soviet Union.