Although many people often forget, al-Qaeda is still around and is very active, but its activities are hardly being noticed.
“Remember al-Qaeda? The danger hasn’t gone away,” by Kalicharan Veera Singam, The Interpreter, May 27, 2024:
Deadly ISIS attacks this year in Iran and the Russian capital Moscow leave little doubt about the group’s efforts at revival. ISIS is now expanding in the Middle East, Central Asia and large parts of Africa, amid warnings it may even target the United States directly in the coming months.
But it’s not just ISIS. Al-Qaeda, its rival terrorist organisation, is also in a better position to make a violent comeback.
While intelligence about ISIS and its threat potential is considered voluminous and clear, the insight into al-Qaeda’s operations is thin and conflicting. According to US intelligence assessments, by September 2023 al-Qaeda in Afghanistan had considerably declined, a year after the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, leaving the group largely directionless. However, other recent evidence contradict this. Findings from a report by privately commissioned officials and recently featured in Foreign Policy show that al-Qaeda has set up military training facilities with activities appearing to resemble the group’s presence in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks. A UN Sanctions Monitoring Team had also similarly assessed in June 2023 that al-Qaeda is regrouping in Afghanistan.
While contradictory points of intelligence paint a conflicting picture, a few verifiable developments and indicators suggest that al-Qaeda is not down and out, and that it could, in all likelihood, continue to expand. The group’s regional branch for South Asia, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, has in some ways served a similar function to that of ISIS in Afghanistan, better known as IS-K, that of a calibrated regional branch that strengthens the reach of the core. Several AQIS members were arrested in India over the last year. In the January 2024 issue of the AQIS journal Nawa-i-Ghazwa-e-Hind, the group quoted Osama bin Laden’s calls for attacks against Americans….
PRCS says
It’s not dead because its members are–get ready for it–Muslims. Muslims who, despite assertions by politicians and so-called journalists, are not perverting the Religion of Peace.
somehistory says
Some non-mozlum terror orgs have a certain *leader* and if that person is eliminated, the group will fall apart. This is due to the focus of the group being the wishes and commands of their leader. If he dies, they have no more reason to stay together.
Some have a secondary leader who may manage to keep the group together, at least for a time.
mozlum terror orgs are different as they are all based on the demands, commands and expectations with promises in the book they all adore and worship. A group such as al queda, which was started by osama with directions from an upper mb terrorist, has had other leaders since osama was killed.
Because the group does not depend on any one person to look to for directions, the members stay together and even gain new recruits..
And the *reason* for the existence of any mozlum terror group, be it al queda, boko haram, isis, hamas, etc. is to spread islam by any and all means possible.
Every mozlum who believes what the evil book of filth says, is a potential terrorist and each group of terrorists is made up of such devoted pawns.
If one falls, there are others to quickly take his place.
Walter Sieruk says
That al Qaeda is now quickly regrouping a regaining strength in Afghanistan is because of Joe Biden because he is responsible for that catastrophe which he created in which the Taliban savages took over Afghanistan.
That fiendish “president” imposter Biden must not be content with harming America and the American people, now he’s furthering is destructive scheme to harm the Western countries and the citizens of those countries. The evils of Joe Biden must have no limits.
Furthermore, just think of all those Americans and out good Afghans, friends he abandoned in Afghanistan to be encountered captured tortured and murdered by the bloodthirsty Taliban.
To make matters even worse Biden admitted many unchecked and unvetted “refugees” into and throughout the United States , a number of them , not doubt are criminal and secret jihadists scheming and waiting for the time they consider to engage in murderous violence.
The innocent people who will be murdered by them will guilty and likewise Biden will also then have their blood on his sinister wicked and destructive hands.
All that evil in Afghanistan would never have happened if that President Pretender, Joe Biden just threw away and totally destroyed nearly twenty years of progress accomplished by the blood sweat and tears and even the deaths of many Americans as well as those blood, sweat and tears of America’s allies.
Also Biden threw away more than trillion of the American taxpayer’s money that was invested in for the betterment and development of Afghanistan.
This tragic scenario didn’t actually have to had happen in Afghanistan because the generals of the Pentagon who are strategic military advisers to the President strongly counseled Biden not to have a sharp, sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan but instead have and start a gradual drawback of the US armed forces after September 11, 2021.
The problem was that the arrogant conceited and stupid Joe Biden refused to heed or listen to the wise council of the intellects of the Pentagon. Therefore is this complete catastrophe with the Taliban total takeover of Afghanistan.
In the ancient but wisdom filled book by Sun Tzu entitled THE ART OF WAR, it is written “He will win who has the military capability and is not interfered with the sovereign.”
That awful incompetent and probably even treasonous villain, Joe Biden, ruined everything.
Walter Sieruk says
That al Qaeda is regrouping and power and numbers in Afghanistan is because of Joe Biden, he is responsible for that catastrophe which he created in which the Taliban savages took over Afghanistan.
For that US “President” Biden, has aided and new continues to support that murderous Taliban enemy conquer Afghanistan and even let the America and American people hating Taliban have new high quality US military equipment.
Likewise, Biden is a traitor to all the families and friends of those US soldiers, who had shed their blood, were killed and terribly maimed for life by the Taliban. For creepy traitorous old Joe just ‘gave away” Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Biden also has betrayed many Americans and the good Afghans who really aided the US military in the land by abandoning them all to the vicious and murderous Taliban.
Furthermore, Biden really does not care about those thirteen Americans who died or the other American who died in Afghanistan because of either his incompetence or treasonous orders.
Therefore , Joe Biden is very, obviously is ether completely incompetent and despicably treasonous. In the first or second case Biden should not have been allowed be enter the Office of the Presidency in the first place.
As that catastrophe, he created in Afghanistan and letting the Talban obtain may high quality US military equipment.
As the former US President Theodore Roosevelt that the Office of the Presidency in not only a powerful position but “a very strong man” is needed for the Oval Office. Joe Biden is not a strong man but as already stated is weak and feeble.
Roosevelt also, rightly, believed “a man holding that very important Office “should be sharply watch by the people [and] held to a strict accountability by them.”
abu taleb says
ISIS, Al Qaeda and Taliban (plus the Shias) kill each other, it is very Islamic, because muslims from the beginning were killing each other too. And it is a good news for the non muslims.
The only question is whether we let them kill each other or not, because there are “innocent” casualties along the process.
Muslims with the right mind should ponder why the elite muslims (thus devoted and learnt of Islam) like to kill people including their own muslim fellow, and then leave Islam because from the fruit we should see what kind of tree it is.
OLD GUY says
And Biden is sending them money. What a FOOL.
James Lincoln says
Yes, he is a fool OLD GUY.
An evil – and somewhat demented – fool.