Al Qaeda No.2 Zawahri most likely to succeed bin Laden

Egyptian-born doctor and medical doctor Ayman al-Zawahri is al Qaeda's second-in-command probable to do well Osama bin Laden subsequent his killing in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan.

Zawahri has been the brains at the back bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, and at times its most public face, continually disapproving the United States and its allies in video messages.

In the latest monitored by the SITE astuteness Group last month, he urged Muslims to fight NATO and American forces in Libya.

"I want to direct the awareness of our Muslim brothers in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and the rest of the Muslim countries, that if the Americans and the NATO forces enter Libya then their neighbors in Egypt and Tunisia and Algeria and the rest of the Muslim countries should rise up and fight both the private army of Gaddafi and the rest of NATO," Zawahri said.

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Analysis: Terrorism alerts reflect evolving threat

U.S. and British attentive about probable Terrorist attacks in Europe highlight anxiety that growing numbers of militant are going from the West to distant war zones for training in answer to Al Qaeda's online call for violence.

The instant trigger for Sunday's travel alerts was cleverness about a plot against European targets allegedly originating with a group of persons in mountainous northern Pakistan, some of them supposed to be European citizens.

Little details of the conspiracy are known. But the plot come into view to be of the kind that Western officials believe poses the most important danger today -- the use of so-called self-radicalized militants with no preceding record of radicalism.

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