BREAKING: Bin Laden Killed By US Forces

WASHINGTON (AP) — The impact Osama bin Laden’s death will have on his al-Qaida organization is unclear.

The greatest terrorist threat to the U.S. is now considered to be the al-Qaida franchise in Yemen, far from the group’s core in Pakistan, where bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces.

It was al-Qaida’s Yemen branch that almost took down a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas 2009 and nearly detonated explosives aboard two U.S. cargo planes last fall.

Those operations were carried out without any direct involvement from bin Laden. U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who’s reportedly hiding in Yemen, is believed to be the inspiration behind those plots.

Al-Awlaki recently wrote in the new edition of al-Qaida’s online magazine that one thing violent Islamist groups will be able to take advantage of is the Arab world’s wave of political unrest.

(Story written by Associated Press)