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Is Al-Qaeda's central leadership still relevant?(Terrorist Groups Evolve)(Essay)
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Middle East Quarterly
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March 22, 2008
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Government officials, scholars, and analysts continue to debate the extent to which Al-Qaeda's central leadership remains relevant to today s battle against terrorism. After U.S. forces eliminated the group s safe haven in Afghanistan in late 2001, many argued that Al-Qaeda had transformed into a decentralized organization with little vertical hierarchy, that it had become "more of an ideology than an organization." (1) In the words of one analyst, Al-Qaeda was seen as "a fragmented terrorist group living on the run in the caves of Afghanistan." (2) This description may have been true in the months following the overthrow of the Taliban, but the notion of a scattered and ...
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