Although it may be satisfying to the US and somewhat disruptive to Islamic guerrilla movements in the short term, it does not change much, really. It is not equivalent to the death of Hitler as the head of an organised belligerent state. AQ is a dispersed and amorphous organisation. The Taliban were allies, not the same organisation and will be relatively unaffected. They will have the moral satisfaction of him dying while facing his enemies and a martyr as such, rather than topping himself as abandoning his people as some seeing Hitler having done.
