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Looking for the ‘new Bin Laden’

U.S. intelligence officers call Pakistan-born Ilyas Kashmiri ‘The New Bin Laden.’ Christopher Dickey, Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor for Newsweek, joins us from Jordan to discuss the terrorist.

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.”