May 3rd, 2011

Author Lawrence Wright on al Qaeda: “al-Zawahiri…will take over. He’s proven to be a terrible manager.”

Live from 4 World Trade Center, “In the Arena” host Eliot Spitzer speaks with experts Lawrence Wright, author of “The Looming Towers: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11″ and writer for the New Yorker, and Robert Grenier, former CIA Islamabad station chief, to discuss the outlook and future for al Qaeda following the death of Osama bin Laden.

Wright says, “Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number-two guy, will take over. He’s proven to be a terrible manager. His own terror group in Egypt, al- Jihad, he ran into the ground. He’s not charismatic. He’s anti-charismatic.”