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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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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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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$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.
According to my dissertation research on the resiliency of al-Qaida and the work of other scholars, the U.S. “war on terror” was the catalyst for al-Qaida’s growth.