No one followed? Methinks you aren't paying attention. All those foreigners streaming into Iraq have followed. The Morroccans trying to mount attacks have followed. Idiots like Richard Reid have followed. Despite the "3/4" numbers being bandied about, I'd go dollars to doughnuts he has more adherents today than 2 years ago.
Mostly pre-9/11 recruits. No new ones I've seen, except to the attribution of Syria and Saudi efforts in Iraq - not Osama's call but geopolitical (Syria) and oil pricing (Saudi, Iran) strategies to upset Iraq.
Moroccans? I don't see anything proving there's been more or less recruiting before or after 9/11. Anyway, the terrs ideology is grander than what Bush does or not.
"No one followed? Methinks you aren't paying attention. All those foreigners streaming into Iraq have followed. The Morroccans trying to mount attacks have followed. Idiots like Richard Reid have followed. Despite the "3/4" numbers being bandied about, I'd go dollars to doughnuts he has more adherents today than 2 years ago."
Wrong - the examples you cite are all of terrorists who were radicalized well before 9/11.
One example is Zarqawi, terrorist since early 1990s. the cleric we killed in iraq in september who was his 'spiritual guide', went Jihadist-nuts round about 1999 or so...