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Al-Qaida Franchises Continue Terror War on the World

DrMoreau33 Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 3:04 PM

If anything, al-Qaeda is far more dangerous, given that it has proliferated throughout the world- as is witnessed by two of its branches, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) & al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the latter of which carried out the deadly attack in Algeria.

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Al-Qaida Franchises Continue Terror War on the World

Four years ago, as his first term began, President Barack Obama ditched the name Global War on Terror (GWOT). Instead of fighting Al-Qaida-inspired terrorism around the world, the U.S. would conduct "overseas contingency operations" (OCO).

Obama's act of oratorical magic -- poof, the global war has ended -- became an awkward problem, however. Real world events subsequently demonstrated that the word "overseas" was at best misleading, if not outright wrong. Detroit, New York and Portland, Ore., certainly aren't overseas, yet militant Islamist-inspired terrorists tried (and fortunately failed) to bomb all three -- Detroit on Christmas 2009, New York's Times Square in...

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