"'He accepted major new players in the Al-Qaeda network,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the NGO Counter-Extremism Project and a former UN advisor.

'So it is a blow to Al-Qaeda,' he said. But 'it's not going to stop anything' planned by Al-Qaeda affiliates."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Succédant en 2011 à Oussama ben Laden tué dans un raid américain au Pakistan, il a joué un rôle moteur dans le processus de décentralisation qui a permis à Al-Qaïda de survivre aux épreuves, indique à l’AFP Hans-Jakob Schindler, directeur de l’ONG Counter-Extremism Project (CEP), ancien expert des Nations unies sur le djihadisme."

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "The assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri is a settling of accounts for the US, who brought ultimate justice to one of the reputed architects of 9/11. It also partly vindicates President Joe Biden’s promise that retribution 'over the horizon' would be an option."

"'He accepted major new players in the al-Qaida network,' Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Counter-Extremism Project and a former U.N. adviser was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse (AFP)."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler: "Succédant en 2011 à Oussama ben Laden tué dans un raid américain au Pakistan, il a joué un rôle moteur dans le processus de décentralisation qui a permis à Al-Qaïda de survivre aux épreuves, indique Hans-Jakob Schindler, directeur de l’ONG Counter-Extremism Project (CEP), ancien expert des Nations unies sur le djihadisme."

"Jugó un papel clave en el proceso de descentralización que permitió a Al Qaida sobrevivir, indica a la AFP Hans-Jakob Schindler, director de la ONG Counter-Extremism Project (CEP) y antiguo experto de Naciones Unidas sobre el yihadismo."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted: "These include al-Shabaab, which still controls much of rural Somalia, the JNIM active in West Africa – particularly Mali – and the Indian subcontinent branch of al-Qaeda (AQIS).

'He accepted important new players in the al-Qaeda network,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the NGO Counter-Extremism Project and former UN adviser."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted: "El egipcio, cirujano de profesión, se puso al frente de la red en 2011, tras la muerte de Osama Bin Laden a manos de un comando estadunidense en Pakistán. Jugó un papel clave en el proceso de descentralización que permitió a Al-Qaeda sobrevivir, indica a la AFP Hans-Jakob Schindler, director de la ONG Counter-Extremism Project (CEP) y antiguo experto de Naciones Unidas sobre el yihadismo."

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "'I think Zawahri’s presence in a Taliban safehouse has to be the nail in the coffin of any plan to release funds directly to the Taliban,' said Nathan Sales, who served as ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism from 2017 to 2021. 'They simply can’t be trusted and the risk is substantial that money released to them would find their way inevitably and directly into al Qaeda’s pockets.'"

CEP Advisory Board Member Nathan Sales quoted: "'Zawahiri’s presence in post-withdrawal Afghanistan suggests that, as feared, the Taliban is once more granting safe haven to the leaders of al-Qaeda — a group with which it has never broken,' said Nathan Sales, a former ambassador at large and counterterrorism coordinator for the State Department during the Trump administration.

While the CIA was able to track and kill Zawahiri in Kabul using remote surveillance, it’s not clear that the U.S. success 'can be replicated against other terrorist targets,' Sales added."