Today we are all Osama: jihadists’ reaction to Bin Laden’s death (guest blog)

One of Al Qaeda’s most potent tools is the Internet. It acts as a communication and recruitment platform for the loose network of ‘jihadist’ activists and their supporters around the world. Mina Al-Lami is a research fellow at the LSE who has been monitoring these sites over the last few years. Here is her fascinating account of the way they responded to the death of Osama Bin Laden.