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AQ (Pre 9/11 (Al-Qaeda as akin to a corporation, with Bin Laden acting as…
AQ
Pre 9/11
Al-Qaeda as akin to a corporation, with Bin Laden acting as agile chief executive officer issuing orders and soliciting ideas from subordinates.
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due to pressures from the security community, in the ensuing years it has transformed into a diffuse global network and philosophical movement composed of dispersed nodes with varying degrees of independence.
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continues to attract potential recruits and possess an ability to influence and support global organisations with similar goals and philosophical objectives.
Grown in strength and independence over the last two years and have begun to project operationally outside their regions.
Attacks show they are on the decline and are desperate to prove its validity.
However, come mean the organisation are becoming more selective and sophisticated in the operations it pursues and adopting a model of encouraging affiliates and sympathizers to undertake smaller scale acts to divert international attention and resources away from planning and preparations for larger, more catastrophic attacks.
Threat to homeland will increase because groups are sharing financial resources, training, tactical and operations expertise and recruits.
the terrorist threat changes quickly and we have observed important changes in the threat even since this Committee convened a similar hearing last year. The threat is evolving in several ways that make it more difficult for law enforcement or the intelligence community to detect and disrupt plots
Al Qaeda shows clear signs of decline. The group has lost many of its key operational leaders to arrest or assassination; a number of Al Qaeda franchises—including in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Algeria
These setbacks and others suggest that Al Qaeda is not any closer to achieving its long-term goals than it was on 10 September 2001
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seek to convince fellow Muslims that the use of violence as a tactic and support for violent groups is religiously justified and required
They use the Quran and religious texts and adapts historical events
experiences of Mohammed and the Islamic community- to current circumstances
believe that such usage unfairly links violence to an important concept in Islam and implies that violent groups are acting on behalf of Islam in a legitimate or praiseworthy manner.
violent individuals or groups that claim to be acting on behalf of Islam or Muslims self-identify as jihadis or mujahidin
its use of violence against Muslims, and its views about the illegitimacy of democracy often put them at odds with other Muslims
Continues to train operatives, recruit and disseminate progaganda
Yemen & Somalia
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some receive money, training and weapons; others look to the core leadership in Pakistan for strategic guidance, justification, and a larger narrative of global struggle.
“less centralized command and control, (with) no clear center of gravity, and likely rising and falling centers of gravity, depending on where the U.S. and the international focus is for that period.”
According to the US, there AQ cells and associates in over 70 countries. these individuals never leave their home country but are radicalized with the assistance of others who have travelled abroad for training and indoctrination through the use of technology.
sought to serve as the vanguard of a religious movement that inspires Muslims and other individuals who was to join a jihadi movement to help defend and purify Islam through violent means.
Tremendous pressure
The lack of large catastrophic operations such as 9/11 has led some analysts to question the relevancy, capabilities and competency of the group.
I cannot reassure you that the danger is gone. We face a persistent terrorist threat from Al Qaeda and potentially others who share its antiWestern ideology. A major terrorist attack may emanate from either outside or inside the United States.
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Organisations infrastructure and ideology are resilient and have the ability to endure external pressures.
although in recent years Al Qaeda has adopted more ideological and inspirational characteristics, it still exists as a group, and possesses, first and foremost, operational characteristics of guerilla and terrorist organization