Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 07/2014

A Growing Threat: Al Qaeda and Its Allies on the Move

Matt Bennett, Jeremy Ershow, Sharon Burke

September 2007

Third Way

Abstract

An update of the analysis of al Qaeda’s strength first done in Beyond Bush. In this report, which updates Section I of Beyond Bush, we analyze the growing threat from al Qaeda and its affiliates and loose confederates, making clear that the network is gaining strength, in part due to the mistakes made by the Bush administration.