Posted on 05/02/2013 8:42:50 PM PDT by Fred
The al-Qaida brand continues to influence terror operations in different corners of the world even as U.S. Special Forces and drone attacks weaken its core leadership, a terror specialist told Newsmax.
“The ideology that they’ve created continues to inspire people,” said Bruce Hoffman, a terror specialist at Georgetown University. “The spread of franchises is indicative of the fact that the brand of al-Qaida today is as strong as it’s ever been.”
The organization has changed tactics and has revived or started terror franchises in Iraq, Syria, across Northern Africa, and in Nigeria. It is now more active and in more places than on Sept. 11, 2001, when it primarily operated out of a safe haven in Afghanistan, according to Hoffman.
Hoffman’s view differs from the characterization made by President Barack Obama, who declared that the terrorist organization was “on a path to defeat” seven weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011.
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Whaddya talkin’ about? 0 assured us AQ is all but neutralized.
On the run, even.
How could this be? Holy-0 told us al-Qaida was essentially defeated and war on terror was over last year!
I’m shocked at this revelation, I tell you! SHOCKED!!
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