Religions > Atheism > OT: How al-Qa'ida has split into dozens of autonomous, hard-to-find 'franchises'
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OT: How al-Qa'ida has split into dozens of autonomous, hard-to-find 'franchises' |
How al-Qa'ida has split into dozens of autonomous, hard-to-find
'franchises'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=466124
By Kim Sengupta
22 November 2003
The Afghan war was meant to deprive al-Qa'ida of the protection of its
Taliban allies and destroy it as a fighting force. But the Istanbul
bombings are the latest example of how the organisation has reinvented
itself to continue its jihad.
Al-Qai'da has proved to be a many-headed hydra. One was decapitated in
Afghanistan, with many of Osama bin Laden's senior lieutenants killed
or captured, and much of its financial resources uncovered and
blocked. But the organisation has now sprung up again in a number of
countries in a franchised form. The recent attacks in Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Chechnya and, possibly, Iraq show that smaller organisations,
often with fighters trained in al-Qa'ida camps in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, are able to carry out operations without overt help from Bin
Laden.
Al-Qai'da
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Al-Qai%27da%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Al-Qai%27da%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Al-Qai%27da%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Al%20Qai%20da&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Al Qaeda
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Al+Qaeda%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Al+Qaeda%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Al+Qaeda%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Al%20Qaeda&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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