Thursday, January 9, 2014

Al Qaeda controls more territory today than at any time in its history-CNN

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1/7/14, "Al Qaeda controls more territory than ever in Middle East," CNN, by Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland

"Indeed, al Qaeda appears to control more territory in the Arab world than it has done at any time in its history.

The focus of al Qaeda's leaders has always been regime change in the Arab world in order to install Taliban-style regimes. Al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri acknowledged as much in his 2001 autobiography, "Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet," when he explained that the most important strategic goal of al Qaeda was to seize control of a state, or part of a state, somewhere in the Muslim world, explaining that, "without achieving this goal our actions will mean nothing.""...via Free Rep.


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