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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
AS THE end of 2011 approached, the Obama administration appeared positioned to have presided over three definitive foreign-policy outcomes in the broader Middle East for which it could claim substantial credit. The death of Osama bin Laden, while not bringing the war against al-Qaeda to an end, surely closed an important chapter in the long-term struggle against militant Islam. Others will rise to take bin Laden's place at the top of the al-Qaeda hierarchy, but his death leaves a void in that organization that will be hard to fill.
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