Who will replace Osama on FBI’s most-wanted terrorists list?
May 4th, 2011 - 6:06 pm ICT by ANIWashington, May 4(ANI): After the death of the most wanted terrorist in the world in the FBI’s list, Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, many are pondering over who will replace him on that list.
Currently there are 29 people on the list, a mix of domestic and international terrorists.
However, FBI Special Agent Steven Gomez pointed out that the list is really in no particular order and any one person could rise through the ranks to the most-wanted spot.
“It’s not something that’s a clear-cut answer as far as this person was a No. 3 and now will move up to a No. 2 position, it doesn’t happen that way,” Fox News quoted Gomez, as saying.
“You have to take all the intelligence that’s occurring throughout the intelligence community and determine what’s the next step,” he added.
Meanwhile, Christian Whiton, a former State Department adviser, says it is time to reassess the world stage without bin Laden.
“His dislodgement from the top of that list is an opportunity now, I think, to step back and think through some of the broader strategy that has to happen in the war on terror in order to get a lasting strategic solution,” Whiton said. (ANI)
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