not really, the two people who al queda cant lose are laden and zawahiri, the rest are just puppets. witih ladens death al queda has somewhat become irrelevant and with his death al queda will be dead.
i hope they can get this guy but he wont make the same mistakes as laden
Bin Laden [R.I.P.] was a pocketbook
The original al qaeda has a few hundred members. They continue to be a threat because all someone has to do is come to them with a plan and if they like it they provide resources. As you may have noticed, alot of people in yemen/iraq/syria/somalia have plans and so they made their own groups and placed themselves under the al qaeda umbrella thus assuring funding. But rest assured they are not dependent on al qaeda proper for planning attacks
first its "we gotta kill zarqawi and they will be crippled"
then "we gotta kill bin laden and they will be crippled"
now its "we gotta kill zawahiri and they will be crippled"
tomorrow it will be "we gotta kill so and so and they will be crippled"
as long as we are fighting a method and not addressing the grievances that lead to the implementation of that method the problem will persist.