IR 407 Lecture 4: Unit Four Notes
17 Dec 2017
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Al qaeda today: al qaeda development, al qaeda organization/nebula. D. al qaeda operations (tradecraft: new developments in al qaeda. Has a great deal of sympathy for arab causes. And is an arab (arabs tend to me overwhelmingly islamic) Supporters make him out to be very strict in religion, but many times he went to. Lebanon (beruit) which was known as the las vegas of the middle east . Like carlos the jackal, a thrill seeker playboy who enjoys violence. Fantasies of doing great deeds but not always the case (see trips to lebanon) Not always a foe of the west! His path to violence against the us, comes from an indirect route. No historic antagonism to the us, nothing in his childhood that would have suggested it. Late 1990"s, bin laden comes into his own. Goes hand in hand with him being a wahabist. Believed in the sunni islam, may have worked with shia occasionally but did not like them.
