Terrorism in the world since the death of Osama bin Laden increased considerably. That says Ko Colijn, defense expert at the Clingendael Institute in the NOS Radio 1 News.
"Until his death Bin had to load the strings a little in your hands. If you wanted to start a terrorist movement, for example in Iraq, he said no. He did a little checking on global terrorism."
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The founder and former leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda was on May 2, 2011, exactly five years ago, slain by American troops . "That was for the Americans an enormous relief," says Colijn that his first day as director of the Clingendael Institute in The Hague polite. "It was the end of a kind of traumatic period in which they began to wonder whether it still made sense to enter the war in Afghanistan."
Bin Laden kept himself "somewhat mysterious" hidden in the mountains near Abbottabad, a camp in northwest Pakistan. Colijn: "One wondered if the man actually still doing something, but his death has surely been the death he was the leader of global terrorism it has affected the unassailable position of al-Qaeda and has been competitive... . "
By: NOS Editorial Photo: AFP
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