Terrorism Inc.

Washington Post ^ | 11/21/03 | Douglas Farah and Peter Finn

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Terrorism Inc.

Leaders of the al Qaeda terrorist network have franchised their organization's brand of synchronized, devastating violence to homegrown terrorist groups across the world, posing a formidable new challenge to counterterrorism forces, according to intelligence analysts and experts in the United States, Europe and the Arab world.

The recent attacks in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Iraq show that the smaller organizations, most of whose leaders were trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, have fanned out, imbued with radical ideology and the means to create or revitalize local terrorist groups. They also are expanding the horizons of groups that had focused on regional issues.

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The Washington Post is just discovering this ???

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The Washington post was too busy counting the ballots from the Tom Daschle look alike contest.