Leading counterterrorism experts independently corroborate the essential contentions of the thesis on Al Qaeda's Great Extinction strategy that emerges from the above evidence.
SYED SALEEM SHAHZAD, Martyred investigative journalist
Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond 9/11 and Bin Laden (2011)
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/19/110919fa_fact_filkins?currentPage=all
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55964
JOHN BRENNAN, U.S. Counterterrorism Czar
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-john-brennan-center-strategic-and-international-studies
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-29/us/counterterrorism.strategy_1_zawahiri-al-qaeda-bin?_s=PM:US
BRUCE RIEDEL, Advisor to President Obama
The Search for Al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future (2010)
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/62608/bruce-riedel/al-qaeda-strikes-back
DANIEL BENJAMIN, Counterterrorism Chief for the U.S. State Department
The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right (2005)
http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2010/03%20March/Benjamin%2003-10-10.pdf
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801455.html
RICHARD CLARKE, Former U.S. Counterterrorism Czar
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (2004)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml
MICHAEL SCHEUER, Former Chief of the CIA’s “Bin Laden” Unit
Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of America (2006)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402322.html