Looking for the ‘new Bin Laden’
U.S. intelligence officers call him ?The New Bin Laden.? Forty-six year old Pakistan-born Ilyas Kashmiri has long years of experience planning commando terror attacks and a declared goal of attacking the West. Intelligence services believe he hopes to run Mumbai-style bomb attacks in western Europe; coalition drone attacks have reportedly been aimed at finding Kashmiri near the Pakistan/Afghanistan border.
Christopher Dickey, Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor for Newsweek, joins us from Jordan to discuss the terrorist described as a “bin Laden favorite.”
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