First, to this day, there is no indisputable proof that al Qaeda even exists.
You really have to wonder about the idea too that a secret terrorist organization would take a name which translates "toilet."
And the frequent notices posted on supposedly known al Qaeda Internet sites border on the absurd. The American top-secret NIA would be able to locate these sites in a few hours. A Predator drone with Hellfire missile would soon follow.
And no evidence ever has been produced that bin Laden had anything to do with 9/11.
That charge is not even on his American federal charges.
The idea of al Qaeda serves as a convenient journalistic catch-all concept for all the many discontents in the Arab world with America's ugly policies in recent decades.
But if it does indeed exist, and it is true that it is on the run, you may be sure there will be plenty of contenders for the title coming along.
You can't end this kind of activity without cleaning up the injustices on which it is founded, and there's not been a hint of such effort.
