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Outsider Gets No. 2 Al Qaeda Post, a First for Terror Group

A Member of a so-called al Qaeda “affiliate” group has for the first time ascended to a leadership position in the terrorist group founded by Osama bin Laden, CIA Director John Brennan said this week.

In remarks on Tuesday to the Council on Foreign Relations that went unnoticed amid the hubbub over an escalating feud between the agency and the Senate Intelligence Committee, Brennan said that the new No. 2 is Nasir Abdel Karim al-Wuhayshi, head of the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

Wuhayshi, a 40ish Yemeni who had been either the “personal secretary” or “personal assistant” to bin Laden at the time of the 9-11 attacks, was mentioned as a leading candidate for the long-vacant post in an NBC News report last month on the secret al Qaeda search for a second-in-command.

Word that Wuhayshi had gotten the job and become potential successor to Ayman al-Zawahri came when Brennan responded to a question about the changing nature of Islamic extremism at the Washington, D.C., event, which was hosted by Andrea Mitchell.

~pic of the dude at link~
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/outsider-gets-no-2-al-qaeda-post-first-terror-group-n53271