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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.


Mike Norman
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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