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[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare] Didn't Makarov have an entire terrorist cell?

My question comes from the plot of the 3 Modern Warfare games. Spoilers will follow.

Obviously the central antagonist throughout the series is Makarov, and Price's burning desire to kill him all along so the world can be rid of this awful person. 

Price's emotional motivations aside, does he, or anyone really, consider the fact that Makarov isn't a lone terrorist? There have been plenty of documented cases where he was seen with many supporters. The two cases that come to mind right now are 1) the group of about the five terrorists that shoot up Zakhaev International Airport and 2) Makarov and his supporters had a house in the mountains where they plotted the attack, complete with expectant living accommodations.

So if Price kills Makarov, does that mean his organization isn't finished? Wouldn't one of the other people that helped him shoot up the airport just take over as head of the terrorist organization he created? I see it sort of as when Bid Laden's death obviously didn't mean the end for al Qaeda.

Thanks guys.
gpt
Not entirely the case. Makarov is a very odd, and unintentionally ironic, reimagining of Bin Laden as a quasi-post-Soviet Russian nationalist. So lots of odd plot holes here and there.

If your comparing it to Bin Laden, then it *did* fall apart, but into splinter groups. When the USN SEAL Team 6 successfully assassinated Bin Laden, al Qaeda collapsed into splinter groups with the largest continuing to call themselves al Qaeda. However, even before the assassination they were slowly falling apart from a combination of funding shortage and low moral.

Makarov wouldn't be any different from his inspiration. He united the separatists under the Ultra-Nationalist banner fueled by the disdain for the ever growing USA Hegemon. Considering they delivered a crippling blow against the USA with their invasion (which for some reason ignores the fact the setting isn't the 1970's), and shattering EU-Russo relations, there wasn't much of a reason for them to stay united anymore. His death would only cement it and they'd implode from infighting for control of Russia.