article_snippet: Still, al-Suri is arguably the most influential strategic thinker in Islamist militant circles today.
article_snippet: A generation of jihadis were influenced by al-Suri teachings," said Paul Cruickshank, a CNN terrorism analyst who has written about al-Suri.
article_snippet: al-Suri wanted a global jihadist intifada, where people rose up and fought  as individuals.
article_snippet: his teachings have deeply influenced jihadis in Syria -- how to build up an organization, how to win support for it," al-Suri said.
article_snippet: the United States has since accused al-Suri of training recruits at al Qaeda pre-9/11 al-Ghuraba and Derunta camps in Afghanistan, where operatives such as Ahmed Ressam, who planned to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in December 1999, learned how to kill with poisons and chemicals.
article_snippet: Eventually, al-Suri publicly criticized Bin Laden for making al Qaeda so hierarchical, for courting publicity and being so controlling, even calling Bin Laden a "Pharoah" for Bin Laden imperial leadership style.
article_snippet: But al-Suri was no less militant.
article_snippet: al-Suri set up al-Suri own training camp in Afghanistan and advocated a "leaderless jihad" featuring, as al-Suri put it, "spontaneous operations performed by individuals and cells all over the Muslim world without connection between individuals and cells all over the whole world.
article_snippet: al-Suri summarized al-Suri philosophy in al-Suri 1,600-page treatise, "The Call for Global Islamic Resistance," which he published on the Internet in 2004.
article_snippet: al-Suri advocated terrorist cells of no more than 10 men and envisioned more "lone-wolf" attacks, such as the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre carried out in 2009 by rogue U.S. Army Maj.
article_snippet: Nidal Malik Hasan, who was inspired by the radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, himself an al-Suri disciple.
article_snippet: Strategically, al-Suri argued, a less centralized jihadist network would make operatives who were arrested less likely to expose fellow militants to intelligence or law enforcement agencies, because the fighters would not know who else was part of the movement.
article_snippet: al-Suri was forward thinking about al Qaeda evolving into an international ideology more than a centrally controlled organization.
article_snippet: After 9/11, al-Suri appeared on the U.S.