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- Title: Triumvirate of Terror: Osama Bin Laden's Warlords (Al QAEDA-LEADERSHIP - PART I)
- Author : Ed Blanche
- Release Date : January 07, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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The Americans claim, once again, they have al Qaeda on the run after dozens of senior operatives from Algeria to Indonesia have been killed or captured over the last couple of years. But the jihadists and their allies have shown a stubborn ability to adapt and replicate even as Osama bin Laden's global network fractures into a chain of autonomous groups, many with ambitions to carry out attacks against the West that would rival the carnage of 9/11. Key leaders may have been eliminated, but there is no shortage of able younger men to take their place. And, more importantly, there are still highly experienced field commanders, some of whom have been involved in some of the major attacks in recent years and yet remain at large and around whom new and deadly networks are emerging. Increasingly, their objective seems to be to carry out high-profile, mass-casualty attacks of the magnitude of 9/11 against the United States. In this regard, three veteran al Qaeda leaders stand out and are seen as key figures in the jihadist crusade to match, or even surpass, 9/11. The twin suicide bombings in Kampala, capital of Uganda, on July 11 in which more than 70 people were killed as they watched the World Cup soccer final on satellite television are a pointer. Counter-terrorism experts say those attacks had the fingerprints of a seasoned al Qaeda veteran, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, all over them. Fazul has been active since as a young man he took part in bin Laden's first big foreign operation in Somalia in 1993 that culminated in the killing of 18 U.S. soldiers in Mogadishu. Fazul has evaded capture ever since even though he has a $5 million bounty on his head from the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice Program. He was indicted by the Americans for the August 1988 bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. He was also credited with twin attacks on Israeli targets in Kenya in November 2002. In both cases, the attacks were almost simultaneous. The Kampala bombings also occurred only minutes apart. Pulverizing synchronized bombings like this - think 9/11, the Casablanca bombings of May 2003, the Madrid train bombings in March 2004, the London bombings of July 2005 - have become an al Qaeda trademark. Al Shabab, the Somali Islamist group allied with al Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for the Kampala attacks. But it has never attempted anything like this in its years of fighting in Somalia. If it was behind the Kampala carnage that would mark its first operation outside Somalia. It's more likely that al Qaeda veterans masterminded the bombings in the name of al Shabab to challenge the United States and demonstrate that despite recent setbacks and operational failures al Qaeda continues to function and still has a lethal reach.
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