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Al Qaeda: Taliban Movement
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Al Qaeda and the Taliban will do what it takes to brainwash as many of the gullible and disenfranchised as it can into subscribing to their twisted cause. Their latest effort... touches a new low – even for them.
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The fact that al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for assassinating Benazir Bhutto really means nothing. After all, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, al Qaeda’s liason to the Taliban, can be confident that the Pakistani government is not going to deny his claim. Indeed, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed […]
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In addition to the Afghan smugglers, al Qaeda is the recipient of local aid from diverse quarters. Some of the officers or men of the Pakistani special units engaged in hunt them are secretly loyal to the erstwhile Pakistani intelligence Afghanistan desk that was dismantled for its pro-Taliban allegiances. They may be tipping off the al Qaeda before raids.
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Because Phares is one of the leading scholars on jihadism, his speech focused more on Al Qaeda than on Iran. Phares discussed the ramifications of the Salaf movement, a puritanical movement within Islam, in the early 20th century and how Al Qaeda had deviated from the original movements into a neo-Wahhabi or neo-Muslim brotherhood. Phares ... informed the students that jihadists are, contrary to popular belief, rational actors.
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[One] important impetus to al-Qaeda’s survival is that it has taken the place of the Communist Party as radical response to the status quo. Al-Qaeda’s top leadership is rich, not poor, and it is a movement of the Right, not the Left. But it is a radical, populist Right that can attract the dispossessed.
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Although authorities thwarted the plot to simultaneously destroy several airliners en route from London to the United States, it once again demonstrated that al Qaeda and the jihadist movement maintain a significant interest in airline targets. Details released in February on the Library Tower bombing plot provide another example of this fixation.
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