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In that regard, one of the most dramatic uses of this tactic enabled the Bush administration to obtain congressional authority to initiate a war against Iraq based on what were later proven to be deliberate falsehoods (BBC/Curtis, 2004).
Ironically, the fictional and manipulative elevation of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden to such levels of importance in the ideological war against the West may have actually played a substantial role in increasing the importance, the influence, and the ability of each to attract more followers (BBC/Curtis, 2004). The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan also seems to have undermined the effort against al-Qaeda by helping to transform what had been an isolated civil war in that country into a region supporting bin Laden today (BBC/Curtis, 2004).
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya was originally an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood; it was the largest militant group in Egypt and once hoped to overthrow the Egyptian secular government to replace it with a religious Islamic state...
Like the radical Taliban in Afghanistan, the Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya believes in building an orthodox Muslim state through violent "jihad." Their spiritual leader is Sheikh Omar Abdel al-Rahman, "the blind cleric" currently in federal prison serving a life sentence for the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
References
CIA. (1998). President's Daily Briefing -- "Bin Laden Preparing to Hijack U.S. Aircraft
and other Attacks" (December 4, 1998). Retrieved May 20, 2010 from:
http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs_full.asp
Curtis a. (2004). BBC Documentary -- the Power of Nightmares: Part 3: The Shadows
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http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/algamaa.cfm
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