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Al Qaeda in 2008: The Struggle for Relevance | Stratfor
Topic: Current Events 10:23 pm EST, Jan  5, 2008

Great Stratfor article on Al Qaeda in 2008. Read the article for the conclusion.

As we look ahead to 2008, the core al Qaeda leadership clearly is struggling to remain relevant in the ideological realm, a daunting task for an organization that has been rendered geopolitically and strategically impotent on the physical battlefield.

Devolution

The theme of our 2007 al Qaeda forecast was the continuation of the metamorphosis of al Qaeda from a smaller core group of professional operatives into an operational model that encourages independent “grassroots” jihadists to conduct attacks, or into a model in which al Qaeda provides the operational commanders who organize grassroots cells. We referred to this shift as devolution because it signified a return to al Qaeda’s pre-9/11 model.

Al Qaeda in 2008: The Struggle for Relevance | Stratfor



 
 
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