Jihad Lives On

Oct 17
2007

Despite seeing over 100 suspected Al Quaeda activists arrested in North America and Europe in the six months after the september 11 attacks , Al Qaeda has regenerated new cells as well as sustaining many of the older and preexisting ones. Nor has the severe disruption of Al Qaeda’s command and control system in Afghanistan in late 2001 and early 2002 permanently dampened or crippled it. Although it has been weakened on a practical level, its ideology remains unaffected and will continue to draw Muslims, especially young ones, to Al Qaeda’s ideal of jihad against the unbelievers. What radical moslems previously lacked was organization, which Al Qaeda and several other Islamist groups have built and sustained quietly amid great secrecy.

Al Qaeda got off to a good start; it inherited a fully fledged training and operational structure that had been funded by the U.S. European, Saudi Arabian and other governments throughout the 1980’s, while for recruitment it drew on a vast mujahadin database originally created by Osama bin Laden for tracking martyred or “missing: mujahadin in the later stages of the anto- Soviet Jihad.

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