Ayman al Zawahiri, the new leader of Al Qaeda, has started building deeper, direct and public ties with a plethora of regional Islamist terror outfits―a strategy that was not favoured by his predecessor Osama bin Laden. Correspondence among bin Laden, Zawahiri and various leaders of Al Qaeda and its “affiliates”, discovered at bin Laden’s compound and released recently to the public, indicates bin Laden was frustrated with many regional Jihadi groups and wanted to keep them at a distance..... |