U.S. says who runs al-Qaida 'barely matters'
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Xinhua, June 17, 2011
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The U.S. State Department said on Thursday, in response to the appointment of Ayman al-Zawahiri as al-Qaida's new leader, that who runs al-Qaida "barely matters."
"What I'd like to say today is frankly it barely matters who runs al-Qaida," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland at the daily briefing.
"Because al-Qaida is a bankrupt ideology. If you look around the world, the peace movements for change around the world have done far more for Muslim people than al-Qaida has ever produced," she added.
Al-Qaida announced on Thursday that Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian-born 60-year-old physician, as its new leader to succeed Osama bin Laden, who was killed on May 2 by U.S. special forces in Pakistan.
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