He “is not interested in fighting in the mountains. He thinks more internationally“, said of him Hamid Mir, biographer of Bin Laden, quoted by the think tank Counter-Extremism Project (CEP).
With him, in fact, “Al-Qaeda has become increasingly decentralized, with authority resting primarily in the hands of its affiliate officials“, adds the CEP which attributes to it a leading role in the reorganization of many jihadist groups.