Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler

Here's Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler for Wednesday, October 31.

Osama bin Laden is dead
Barry Rubin in A short guide to the Benghazi issue, writes:


Al-Qaeda, however, is a relatively weak organization, capable of
staging only sporadic terror attacks, with the exception perhaps of
remote Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and parts of Pakistan. It cannot
take over whole countries. The