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Al-Qaeda has come of age: it has been restructured into the discount superstore of terrorism now. It has morphed over the past few years into what became clear during 2013: the Walmart of Terrorism. It has become leaner and not ‘top heavy’ anymore. It has opened new branches across the Muslim world, most of them also closer to its ‘customers’ and prospective customers: just like Sam Walton’s baby. The loss of the charismatic Osama Bin Laden and emergence of the clunky and boring Al Zawahri has not necessarily been bad for it.
The Wahhabi terrorist organization has extended its influence from Pakistan through northwestern Iraq through Syria as well as parts of Lebanon. The move into Lebanon was thanks to the funding and encouragement of the Saudi proxies among the warlords of the Hariri March 14 movement.
Al-Qaeda is deeply embedded now inside Yemen, close to its Saudi birthplace and source of volunteers and money. Deep enough that American drones based in Saudi Arabia have so far failed to dislodge it. It has also extended its influence into liberated Libya (as Republicans like to squawk: Benghazi, Benghazi!), Tunisia (still trying to remain free but also often reported the home of Jihad sex and all that نكاح الجهاد), southern Algeria, Mali and other Sahel countries. A version of it is also active in Nigeria and other West African states. Its Wahhabi ideology is also alive and well in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Which all means that the Wahhabi groups and its franchises have managed to maintain and ‘protect’ their Persian Gulf sources of money and funding. It is always about the money in this day and age. No doubt indicating a huge failure (and a defeat) for the erstwhile ‘war on terror’.
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