Event: Center for Naval Policy Forum – May 1

Center for National Policy
“A Year Beyond Bin Laden: The New Al Qaeda”
May 1, 2012 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Capitol Visitor Center, Room HVC-215

Featuring: Will McCants. CNA; Mary Habeck, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Stephen Tankel Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. M oderator: Scott Bates, President, Center for National Policy

It has been exactly a year since an elite team of Navy SEALs killed al Qaeda's Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The world has seen other changes as well: the "Arab Spring," the reverberations of which continue to rock the Middle East and the larger Muslim world.

With the benefit of a year of reflection, how has Bin Laden's death change al Qaeda? How are these changes likely to play out in the future? What are al Qaeda's prospects in a post-Arab Spring world, given the ascendance of Islamic political parties? With CNP President Scott Bates moderating, our panel of experts will discuss and debate these questions and more.