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November 21, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1934-2003Nov20.html

Terrorism Inc.

(Washington Post) Douglas Farah and Peter Finn - Leaders of the al-Qaeda terrorist network have franchised their organization's brand of synchronized, devastating violence to homegrown terrorist groups across the world, posing a formidable new challenge to counterterrorism forces, according to intelligence analysts and experts in the U.S., Europe, and the Arab world. The recent attacks in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, and Iraq show that the smaller organizations, most of whose leaders were trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, have fanned out, imbued with radical ideology and the means to create or revitalize local terrorist groups.

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