Bin Laden is a Minor Player
UPI –
The march towards decentralized self sufficient autonomous units with their own recruitment mechanisms continues –
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden now has only minor influence on radical Islamists because of the Internet, a U.S. Military Academy study suggests.
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, N.Y., called its study the “first systematic mapping” of the Islamic holy war and found more ideological training was going on in chat rooms and online forums, The New York Times reported.
-Shlok
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