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Al Qaeda, Trends in Terrorism and Future Potentialities: An Assessment

Overview This paper assesses current trends in terrorism and future potentialities. It examines first the presumed state of Al-Qaeda today with particular reference to its likely agenda in a post-Iraq war world. It then more broadly focuses on some key current terrorism trends in order to understand better both how terrorism is changing and what the implications of these changes are in terms of possible future attacks and patterns.

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Publisher	RAND	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	July 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Border Security

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