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Two generations of the organization leaders have been almost completely eliminated and the third is currently in difficulty. The leaders of “al Qaeda central” in Afghanistan and Pakistan are also increasingly on the defensive and unable to offer serious guidance and support. In fact, al Qaeda perspective and vision of its caliphate dim and become obscure. Thus, since the revolution of Arab spring in 2011 and the death of their leader (Usama Bin Laden), two commons terms have appeared: First, the events in Egypt and Tunisia have shown that young protestors can bring about change without resorting to armed violence, which significantly undermines al-Qaeda's rhetoric of violence. Secondly, the main requirement of the protestor (a democratic change), as well as the essentially secular nature of the uprisings, leaves al-Qaeda in