The End Of Islamist Terrorism? A New Dawn For The Middle East

http://video.forbes.com/fvn/mallory-factor/yigal-carmon-pt1

This is a video interview with Yigal Carmon, who is the president and founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications, radio and TV broadcasts and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet. He was a Colonel with the IDF Intelligence from 1968–88.

His suggestion is that the word is getting out around the Middle East that Osama Bin Laden did not die the glorious death of a Martyr that he preached and this is making him look like a coward and a hypocrite. Given his status as an inspirational figure and a symbol, this could have a serious long term destructive affect on the Jihadi movement. He also thinks that the "Arab Spring" will result in young Arabs seeing an option other than Jihadism in the long run. The combination of these two factors led to the title. Check out the video, it is well worth watching.

Here is part 2, which is entitled "A New Dawn For The Middle East": http://video.forbes.com/fvn/mallory-factor/yigal-carmon-pt2