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Phares quoted in Portugal's: "Al-Qaeda Grupo de Osama bin Laden nasceu há 20 anos"
Phares quoted in Portugal's: "Al-Qaeda Grupo de Osama bin Laden nasceu há 20 anos." Quote Translated: Unlikely victory" As a middle-way between experts Sageman and Hoffman, Walid Phares, a terrorism expert from the ‘Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ in Washington, believes that the concept of “real danger vs a fake danger does not exist”. He sums up saying that it is about an ideological movement, “partly [composed by] the Al-Qaeda and mostly [composed by] global jihad members”. However, in an e-mail interview, he says that “the fact that Arabs, Chechens, Europeans, Africans and Asians are fighting together with the Taliban and Al- Qaeda means that this is not a local but a transnational movement, despite the significant among the Pashtun in Afghaistan”. He explains that “there is a global ideology called the jihadist movement.” Making an analogy with the Lord of the Rings tale Phares said "the jihad movement are the rings, the strong elements that the Lords and the leaders use in their quest for expansion; The Lords, such as Bin Laden and Zawahiri come and go, the ideology stays and produces additional leaders”. For Walid Phares the Al- Qaeda “will only lose when we acknowledge there is an ideology to defeat, the jihad movement, and that the best allies in this confrontation are the anti-jihad muslims”; Hoffman agrees: “Is it necessary to defeat the ideology and this can be done by putting forward a counter-narrative”. However, Hoffman does not believe that even in this way it will be possible to claim “victory”; “We may weaken Al-Qaeda, decrease significantly its capacity to launch attacks or recruit new generations, but it will be very difficult to defeat it”. Visit Website ]
Sep 2, 2008, 19:40

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Phares Quoted in Portuguese el Publico article "O guru da jihad renunciou ao terrorismo. Será isto o princípio do fim da Al-Qaeda?"
Walid Phares, especialista em questões de terrorismo global na Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, em Washington, reconhece que "nos últimos anos a Al-Qaeda sofreu uma dissidência e foi abandonada por jihadistas, como o Dr. Fadl, presos por regimes árabes e muçulmanos". Mostra-se, porém, mais céptico do que Anani e Ebeid. "O que está a ser criticado não é a ideologia da Al-Qaeda ou os seus objectivos finais", sublinhou Phares numa entrevista ao P2, por e-mail. "O que tem sido criticado são a gestão e as estratégias" da organização. "Não devemos interpretar mal as críticas na Al-Qaeda", alerta. "Os que abandonaram o jihadismo como ideologia são verdadeiros reformistas, sejam eles da Al-Qaeda ou wahabitas [corrente saudita] clássicos. O jihadismo é medido pela reforma e oposição ao movimento terrorista, não basta criticar as tácticas. Por exemplo, o grosso das críticas a que temos assistido ultimamente, e que deixou muitos entusiasmados no Ocidente, tem a ver com os erros cometidos pela Al-Qaeda, mas não com a rejeição da teoria. Seria como estalinistas criticarem os trotskistas." Se o americano de origem libanesa Walid Phares, autor de The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad, não apoia as teses de que "a Al-Qaeda está derrotada ideologicamente". Visit Website ]
Jul 13, 2008, 11:53


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Phares Article in German IMS Military Magazine: "Machtkampf im Libanon Ist die Zedernrevolution besiegt?
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Phares quoted in Portugal's: "Al-Qaeda Grupo de Osama bin Laden nasceu há 20 anos"