The death of Osama Bin Laden will not signal the end of terror attacks, says Bradford University’s Professor Paul Rogers.
Prof Rogers, a commentator and analyst on global conflict based at the University’s Peace Studies department, said: “It is certainly significant for the US and very cathartic for them.
“It is ten years since Bin Laden was first dubbed public enemy number one. The reality is that he was very much a figurehead of a very dispersed movement.”
Prof Rogers said it was wrong to think of Bin Laden as the head of an organisation, doling out orders to commit specific terrorist atrocities.
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