{"id":46981,"date":"2022-08-02T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/ayman-al-zawahiri-killing-unlikely-to-significantly-weaken-al-qaida"},"modified":"2022-08-02T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:20:47","slug":"zawahiris-killing-unlikely-to-weaken-al-qaida-significantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46981","title":{"rendered":"Zawahiri\u2019s killing unlikely to weaken al-Qaida significantly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: The terrorist leader had been ill and key tasks are likely to have been handled by others for several years<\/p>\n<p>Ayman al-Zawahiri was a low-key but effective leader of al-Qaida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/us-strike-afghanistan-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri\">whose death<\/a> will cause the terrorist organisation some short-term turbulence but is unlikely to cause any major long-term problems.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, killing Zawahiri would have made a major difference. Now, though the nature of his death demonstrates the US\u2019s continuing ability to strike individual enemies even in hostile environments and raises questions about the Taliban\u2019s relationship with extremist groups, it is unlikely to weaken al-Qaida significantly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/ayman-al-zawahiri-killing-unlikely-to-significantly-weaken-al-qaida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: The terrorist leader had been ill and key tasks are likely to have been handled by others for several yearsAyman al-Zawahiri was a low-key but effective leader of al-Qaida whose death will cause the terrorist organisation some short-term turb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,487,2333,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-ayman-al-zawahiri","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46982,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46981\/revisions\/46982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}