The Evolving Al-Qaeda Threat [Heritage Foundation Lecture]

The Heritage Foundation ^ | March 17, 2006 | by James Phillips

[johnny7]

Jemaah Islamiah, captured in Thailand; and Hamzah al-Rabbiyah al-Masri, a key operational leader killed in Pakistan. More than 4,000 suspected al-Qaeda members have been arrested worldwide since September 11, 2001. Al-Qaeda cells have been uncovered, dismantled, and disrupted in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. More than $140 million of its assets have been blocked in over 1,400 bank accounts worldwide.

[johnny7]

“Now that Iraq has become, by al-Qaeda's own reckoning, a crucial front in the global war to build a radical Islamic empire, the collapse of Iraq's new democratic government would be a huge victory for al-Qaeda. Any "exit strategy" for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq that is perceived by Muslims as a victory for al-Qaeda would boost the group's ability to recruit new members far beyond the current rate.”

Only a fool could think otherwise.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

Great post. Thanks.

[Once-Ler]

Dittos to what Hound said. Bump and bookmarked.

[georgia2006]

what gtes me is how there is no debat in this country about just what a withdrawl would mean and what its implications would be....for instance does anyone really think we'd be able to hang on in afghanistan if we quit Iraq?