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Qaida's Core Weakened
intelligence officials are trying to assess just how dangerous al Qaida still is.
They seem to agree that core al Qaida the group that launched the Sept. 11 attacks and looked to bin Laden for guidance Hermes necklace replica is in trouble. The sessions went on for hours. Officials discussed the growing threat from Iran and their concern about cyberattacks and weapons proliferation.
What was dramatically different was how long the discussion on al Qaida lasted: It clocked in at just minutes.
The head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Matthew Olsen, summed up the al Qaida threat this way: "The bottom line, I think, is that al Qaida is weaker now than it has been in the last 10 years," he told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
At a House Intelligence Hermes white gold necklace knock off Committee hearing Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said: "As long as we sustain the pressure on it, we judge that core al Qaida will be of largely symbolic importance to the global jihadist movement. But regional affiliates, and to a lesser extent Hermes necklace copy small cells and individuals, will drive the global jihad agenda."
Threat Shifting, But Not Disappearing
Experts say officials are talking about more than just a terrorist group that is decentralized. What they are saying is that something more significant than that has happened: Al Qaida, as a movement, has fragmented. And according to Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University and a terrorism expert, that means that the threat al Qaida presents has fundamentally changed.
"The threats may not be as serious as 9/11 and 2001 type threats, because the groups are smaller and, fortunately, less capable," Hoffman says. "Nonetheless, they are much more difficult to identify, much more difficult to track, and much more difficult to anticipate, prevent. intelligence community is turning its focus to groups like al Qaida's arm in Yemen or Islamic militias in Somalia such as al Shabab. It released a video message this week that called on jihadis to focus on the United States; their leader said President Obama was waging a war against Muslims.
This is the kind of clarion call that al Qaida used to sound.
Audrey Kurth Cronin, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, says the hearings revealed another important development closer to home the intelligence community has become far less breathless about al Qaida.
"I think that we're returning to a slightly more normal perspective on terrorism," Cronin says. "We're not seeing al Qaida as the only organization that uses terrorism, and we're going back to a broader view where we have threats of terrorism from many different sources, and I think that is the transition that is under way."
Groups May Exploit Arab Spring Instability
This broader view means that officials aren't focusing exclusively on al Qaida affiliates. Instead, they are trolling for any terrorist groups that might be seeking to take advantage of the instability that has followed the Arab Spring. In some cases it might be groups aligned with al Qaida; in other cases they might not.
Consider the availability of guns and other weapons. According to intelligence officials, before the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, an AK 47 in North Africa cost about $1,000. With the flood of weapons coming out of Libya, an AK 47 now costs about half that.
Georgetown's Hoffman says that's only the beginning.
"If the Syrian government falls and there is the same instability that attended the fall fake Hermes necklace of the Gadhafi regime with the fall of Bashar Assad's regime, the region could be flooded with weapons," he says.
Whether that will help fledgling al Qaida affiliates or new groups is still to be determined. And that's why intelligence officials are watching the developments so closely.
The more immediate question, however, is where this leaves al Qaida.
"The bottom line is, when is it 'rest in peace al Qaida?' " says Cronin.
"And my answer would be 'not yet,' some things require the passage of time. All the indicators are positive, particularly with respect to al Qaida's core," Cronin says. "Al Qaida has declined. But only a historian can declare it is dead."
intelligence officials are trying to assess just how dangerous al Qaida still is.
They seem to agree that core al Qaida the group that launched the Sept. 11 attacks and looked to bin Laden for guidance Hermes necklace replica is in trouble. The sessions went on for hours. Officials discussed the growing threat from Iran and their concern about cyberattacks and weapons proliferation.
What was dramatically different was how long the discussion on al Qaida lasted: It clocked in at just minutes.
The head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Matthew Olsen, summed up the al Qaida threat this way: "The bottom line, I think, is that al Qaida is weaker now than it has been in the last 10 years," he told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
At a House Intelligence Hermes white gold necklace knock off Committee hearing Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said: "As long as we sustain the pressure on it, we judge that core al Qaida will be of largely symbolic importance to the global jihadist movement. But regional affiliates, and to a lesser extent Hermes necklace copy small cells and individuals, will drive the global jihad agenda."
Threat Shifting, But Not Disappearing
Experts say officials are talking about more than just a terrorist group that is decentralized. What they are saying is that something more significant than that has happened: Al Qaida, as a movement, has fragmented. And according to Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University and a terrorism expert, that means that the threat al Qaida presents has fundamentally changed.
"The threats may not be as serious as 9/11 and 2001 type threats, because the groups are smaller and, fortunately, less capable," Hoffman says. "Nonetheless, they are much more difficult to identify, much more difficult to track, and much more difficult to anticipate, prevent. intelligence community is turning its focus to groups like al Qaida's arm in Yemen or Islamic militias in Somalia such as al Shabab. It released a video message this week that called on jihadis to focus on the United States; their leader said President Obama was waging a war against Muslims.
This is the kind of clarion call that al Qaida used to sound.
Audrey Kurth Cronin, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, says the hearings revealed another important development closer to home the intelligence community has become far less breathless about al Qaida.
"I think that we're returning to a slightly more normal perspective on terrorism," Cronin says. "We're not seeing al Qaida as the only organization that uses terrorism, and we're going back to a broader view where we have threats of terrorism from many different sources, and I think that is the transition that is under way."
Groups May Exploit Arab Spring Instability
This broader view means that officials aren't focusing exclusively on al Qaida affiliates. Instead, they are trolling for any terrorist groups that might be seeking to take advantage of the instability that has followed the Arab Spring. In some cases it might be groups aligned with al Qaida; in other cases they might not.
Consider the availability of guns and other weapons. According to intelligence officials, before the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, an AK 47 in North Africa cost about $1,000. With the flood of weapons coming out of Libya, an AK 47 now costs about half that.
Georgetown's Hoffman says that's only the beginning.
"If the Syrian government falls and there is the same instability that attended the fall fake Hermes necklace of the Gadhafi regime with the fall of Bashar Assad's regime, the region could be flooded with weapons," he says.
Whether that will help fledgling al Qaida affiliates or new groups is still to be determined. And that's why intelligence officials are watching the developments so closely.
The more immediate question, however, is where this leaves al Qaida.
"The bottom line is, when is it 'rest in peace al Qaida?' " says Cronin.
"And my answer would be 'not yet,' some things require the passage of time. All the indicators are positive, particularly with respect to al Qaida's core," Cronin says. "Al Qaida has declined. But only a historian can declare it is dead."
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