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Terror Networks
The many faces of the “Al Qaeda’s”
2007-07-17
Posted by:anonymous5089

#2  Al Qaeda has not only failed in its attempts to trigger region-wide uprisings against the Middle EastÂ’s secular governments, it has also lost the ability to launch strategically meaningful attacks — that is, attacks resulting in policy shifts by its targets.

Though its strategic alliance with the media, academic and celebrity elites of the West provides it with the leverage it had lost through military defeat.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-07-17 12:08  

#1  Which means the odd stasis in the war on terror these past six years could be about to loosen up, and a front that has proven oddly cold might be about to catch fire.

Something wicked this way comes?
Posted by: doc   2007-07-17 08:50  

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