Are Local Jihadists Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaida?
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › August 20, 2004
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In the more than two years since U.S. forces destroyed al- Qaida's haven and much of its leadership in Afghanistan, many U.S. intelligence officials and terrorism experts had come to believe that other Islamist extremist groups now posed the gravest threat.
From Istanbul to Madrid, local jihadists mounted daring and deadly attacks with little apparent support from Osama bin Laden's crippled network. President Bush and other U.S. officials boasted that two-thirds of al-Qaida's senior leadership had been captured or killed and that those who remained, including bin Laden, were desperate and on the run.See the full content of this document
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Are Local Jihadists Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaida?
But the wave of arrests and intelligence discoveries in Pakistan in recent weeks that led to a new terrorism alert in the United States caught many U.S. officials and outside experts by surprise. It revealed a network of operatives connected to past al-Qaida operations and aligned with Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the imprisoned mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The new evidence suggests that al-Qaida is battered but n...See the full content of this document
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