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| Al-Qaeda more resilient than anticipated - DoD-sponsored study |
| 2005-03-20 |
| Al Qaida has demonstrated a resiliency that has surprised the U.S. military leadership. A study sponsored by the Defense Department said Al Qaida's resiliency has not been diminished by the international campaign against the Islamic insurgency movement. The report said Al Qaida has become more lethal than before its suicide strikes against New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. Authored by Robert Pape, a political science professor at the University of Chicago, the report dismissed the Bush administration's assertion that Al Qaida's leadership and capabilities have been severely harmed. The study said that since the 2001 attacks Al Qaida carried out 15 suicide attacks in which 439 people were killed. Pape also wrote a study in the summer of 2003, entitled "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terror," sponsored by the Pentagon. The study reviewed suicide attacks from 1980 through 2003 and concluded that suicide strikes were not the work of fanatics. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 We have thus far acted in two of the roughly dozen or so primary states in the Middle East in which Al Qaeda acts and draws support. Al Qaeda's resulting resilience shouldn't come as a suprise. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-03-20 8:42:13 PM |