The head of the German Foreign intelligence agency, Ernst Uhrlau, says "Guantanabo Sends teh Wrong Signal to the Muslim World."
Uhrlau says, "Both the Taliban and Al-Qaida have, without a doubt, managed to revitalize themselves as transnational networks. But the fact that al-Qaida has re-grouped doesn't mean that there is once again a classic centralized structure like the one that existed before Sept. 11, 2001. The organization has adapted itself. A number of groups in North Africa have recently joined al-Qaida, hoping to benefit from its brand name and thus be regarded as major players by the media. Nowadays al-Qaida is much more of an ideological umbrella organization which has the strategic objective of triggering conflict in the Muslim world with non-Muslim regimes. The focus of the struggle is always in the region in question."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,475676,00.html
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