Patryk Pawlak, a research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris, calls Zawahri a "divisive figure" in the Al-Qaeda network. He says Zawahri's leadership could mean a further decentralization of Al-Qaeda, which some experts say has operated tactically without bin Laden for years.
"Al-Zawahri is not perceived as such a charismatic leader as bin Laden was," Pawlak says. "One of the major features that made bin Laden so powerful was exactly that he was able to get people behind him quite well and he enjoyed pretty big support on the side of different terrorist organizations from the Al-Qaeda movement."
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