While there is reason to doubt the attribution of terrorist attacks in some countries to phoney "al-Qaedas", it would be strategic blindness to assume that the real al-Qaeda's vision and appeal are passe just because of the Arab Spring. Complete democratization in the Muslim world is far from achieved, leaving fertile ground for Jihadi elements to recruit and terrorize. Al-Qaeda-inspired and affiliated terrorist groups such as the al-Shabaab in Somalia, the Haqqani network and the Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan, the Tehreek-e-Taliban and the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba in Pakistan are not just pinpricks with nuisance value but flourishing entities commanding vast political economies of societal and state support. -- Sreeram Chaulia
http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamRadicalIslamismAndJihad_1.aspx?ArticleID=6311
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