Mar 17, 2018
"If you look at the eve of 9/11, the full membership of al-Qaeda
was 400 people. But today the people who adhere to bin Laden-ism,
to the ideas of Osama bin Laden, are thousands upon thousands. Some
estimates put them at forty to fifty thousand."
The New Yorker has described former FBI agent Ali H Soufan as the
person who came closer than anyone else to preventing 9/11. Today,
his time at the agency is portrayed in the Hulu series "The Looming
Towers," and he's a leading expert on ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the
future of terrorism in an increasingly fragmented world.
Spoiler Alert: He does not bring good news.