Using U.S. Leverage to Abate Conflicts That Harm U.S. Security
Qaeda exploits wars that involve Muslims to sustain its power. It features these wars in its propaganda, and uses them as occasions to recruit and train new fighters, raise money, and network with other extremist groups. For these reasons wars that involve Muslims are a tonic for al-Qaeda and a t...
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Tobin Project
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71253 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-9943 |
| Summary: | Qaeda exploits wars that involve Muslims to sustain its power. It features
these wars in its propaganda, and uses them as occasions to recruit and train
new fighters, raise money, and network with other extremist groups. For these
reasons wars that involve Muslims are a tonic for al-Qaeda and a threat to U.S.
efforts to defeat al-Qaeda.1 Conflicts that do not involve Muslims can also help
al-Qaeda by causing states to quarrel among themselves instead of cooperating
to defeat al-Qaeda, or cooperating to limit the spread of weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) that al-Qaeda seeks to acquire. |
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