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| Al-Qaeda support slumping among Muslims: Report | | |
London, Sept 08: Al-Qaeda is losing sympathy among the world's Muslims five years on from the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, a report said today.
But al-Qaeda's status as a global player has been unintentionally enhanced by the way the united states and its allies have reacted to the attacks, said the study published by Chatham House, a respected London-based Foreign Affairs think-tank.
Osama bin Laden's global terror network has forced western policies towards the Muslim world to be examined and sparked a rise in home-grown terrorism in Europe, said the report titled "al-Qaeda five years on: Threats and challenges".
And it has scored a propaganda gain by ingraining the link between terrorism and regional crises such as the war in Iraq or the Israel-Palestine conflict, it added.
Doctor Maha Azzam, the report's author, said that five years after al-Qaeda crashed planes into the world trade centre in New York and the Pentagon defence headquarters in Washington, a mixed picture of the network's fortunes was emerging.
"Although its image as a powerful terrorist organisation has been enhanced, its leaders hide in caves and have lost the broad support of Muslims," she told.
"Al-Qaeda's biggest success is that it has put on the table very clearly the link between regional crises and terrorism. Policy-makers are still in denial.
"It has forced Muslims and non-Muslims to say much more clearly that the policies of western governments have consequences -- including terrorism." |
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