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The following are highlights of research and translations from this past year from the MEMRI Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project.

On May 26, 2022, Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) aired an interview with Moroccan former Al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubeir Al-Maghrabi, who spoke about the time he spent in Iran after fleeing Afghanistan during the American invasion. The interview was conducted from inside a prison in Libya where Al-Maghrabi is currently being detained. Al-Maghrabi also described how Al-Qaeda provided him and his family with forged passports and how easy it was to bribe airport and border checkpoint personnel throughout the Arab world to let them cross borders.

Whatever Happened to Al Qaeda? Published May 5th, 2021 - 10:59 GMT Osama bin Laden (Getty/AFP File Photo) The terrorist organisation that changed the trajectory of global politics through its spectacular attack on September 11, 2001 has survived, but just. A decade has passed since Al Qaeda's founder Osama bin Laden was killed in an American raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan. In spring 2011, with the charismatic bin Laden gone and Al Qaeda’s ambitions for regional upheaval seemingly preempted by widespread revolts across the Middle East, optimistic predictions abounded that Al Qaeda st...