From the Company of Shadows by Kevin Shipp

Author:Kevin Shipp [Shipp, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cia, terrorism, secret, agent, Constitution, secrecy, alqaeda, privilege, statesecretsprivilege, muslimbrotherhood, covertoperations, patriotact
Publisher: Kevin Shipp
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 2: Breakdown of the global Al Qaeda organization

Al Qaeda’s Second in Command

Al Qaeda then appointed its second in command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman. Rahman was the network’s former operational leader. On August 22, 2011 Rahman was killed in the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan. US officials declined to comment on how he was killed. A CIA drone strike was reported in Waziristan. At the time of this writing, Rahman’s replacement is unknown.

Al Qaeda’s New Amorphous Strategy -Death by a Thousand Cuts

With the damage done to the organization’s structure by the US and allied war on terror, Al Qaeda has been forced to alter its operational modus operandi. In a special addition of the propaganda magazine Inspire, an English publication produced by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, the organization described its new strategy in conducting terror attacks on the US and its allies. The publication states this is a strategy of "attacking the enemy with smaller, but more frequent operations is what some may refer to as the strategy of a thousand cuts. The aim is to bleed the enemy to death."

Using this terror philosophy Al Qaeda has developed a more decentralized amorphous structure. This structure is aimed at using the internet, propaganda, front organizations and front charities to inspire spontaneous terrorist cells and lone wolf terrorists to carry out their own attacks, not directly affiliated with the Al Qaeda organization, around the world.

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