Fighting a Lost Battle: Bin Laden’s Shoes are too Big to Fill

By James M. Dorsey

These are tough times for Al-Qa’ida.

This weekend’s successful hunting down of Al-Qa’ida’s inspirational leader, Osama Bin Laden, by US special forces serves primarily to accentuate the challenges the group faces.

Once celebrated as the world’s most lethal and wanted leader, Bin Laden died a figure marginalized in life and death by the c…