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Christian Tailor – Al-Qaeda Is Back and Stronger Than Ever

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How is this possible?  Rather than weaken Al Quada, the War On Terror has greatly strengthened it, as Bin Laden hoped it would. Al-Qaida has recruited an estimated 40,000 fighterssince Sept. 11, 2001, when the Osama bin Laden-led extremist group attacked the United States, according to the not-for-profit Council on Foreign Relations. Despite a United States-led global “war on terror” that has cost US.9 trillion, killed an estimated 480,000 to 507,000 people and assassinated bin Laden, al-Qaida has grown and spread since 9/11, expanding from rural Afghanistan into North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, the Gulf States, the Middle East and Central Asia. According to my dissertation research on the resiliency of al-Qaida and the work of other scholars, the U.S. “war on terror” was

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Rather than weaken Al Quada, the War On Terror has greatly strengthened it, as Bin Laden hoped it would.

Al-Qaida has recruited an estimated 40,000 fighterssince Sept. 11, 2001, when the Osama bin Laden-led extremist group attacked the United States, according to the not-for-profit Council on Foreign Relations.
Despite a United States-led global “war on terror” that has cost US$5.9 trillion, killed an estimated 480,000 to 507,000 people and assassinated bin Laden, al-Qaida has grown and spread since 9/11, expanding from rural Afghanistan into North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, the Gulf States, the Middle East and Central Asia.


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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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