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The state of al-Qaeda, 25 years after Sept. 11

WBUR
Published September 11, 2026 at 10:03 AM MDT
Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian linked to the al Qaeda network, during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. In the article, which was published November 10, 2001 in Karachi. (Visual News/Getty Images)
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Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian linked to the al Qaeda network, during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. In the article, which was published November 10, 2001 in Karachi. (Visual News/Getty Images)

Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism analysts are divided over whether al-Qaeda is obsolete or more threatening than ever before.

Graeme Wood, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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