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Friday, January 6, 2012

''The rise of al-Qaeda's franchises''

read more from asia times online...

"The recent series of deadly bombings in Baghdad and Damascus that killed scores of civilians and agents of state have brought the phrase "al-Qaeda" back into the reckoning. 

The attacks occurred at the tail-end of 2011, a year in which the organization's original kernel was deemed pulverized to irrelevance through American-led global military and financial efforts. 

The United States military-bereft Iraqi government blamed "al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia" for ghastly serialized explosions that killed scores of citizens, mainly Shi'ites, on December 22.'' 

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