Although I say that Al Qaeda’s decentralization is typical of a virtual organization becoming more mature, the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization has published an article to say that this is a sign of weakness. Author Fawaz A. Gerges says that Al Qaeda is a skeleton of its former self: ‘Now bin Laden and al-Zawahiri focus primarily on providing spiritual inspiration and overall strategic direction to jihadist factions.’
   Nevertheless, he offers some advice to the Bush administration: it should not rest on its laurels. The public relations’ side of the war has proved a disaster. I can understand that: the American brand has distanced itself from its former image of generosity. Claims of freedom run counter to the Patriot Act—whether you agree with the legislation or not, it has an image problem.
   While those two examples are mine, click through to the article here. Posted by Jack Yan, 09:41  permalink

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