ISLAMABAD -- Al-Qaida is "weakening day by day" because the organization has failed to keep active since the killing of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. military raid on his lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, a close aide told Nikkei Asia on the 10th anniversary of the al-Qaida founder's death.
Muhammad Amin ul Haq -- who, according to a United Nations Security Council webpage, once coordinated security for bin Laden -- said the master terrorist's death was a serious blow to al-Qaida because he was so highly respected by other al-Qaida leaders and also by the Afghan mujahedeen who fought Soviet occupation forces in the 1980s.
