Al-Qaeda: The Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat : Report of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Approved June 2006, Together with Additional and Minority Views, Submitted September 2006

United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

ene 2006 · Government Printing Office

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Provides an overview of information about Al-Qaeda and related terrorist groups. This report from Congress concludes that Al-Qaeda and Islamist extremist terrorist groups with like-minded goals and ideologies remain threats to the national security of the United States. It discusses how Al-Qaeda's terrorist campaign has attracted a global support and recruitment network and retains its global appeal it also describes Al-Qaeda's metastasizing of its scale of influence by reaching out to like-minded Islamist extremist groups and inspiring new groups and individuals to emerge and carry out independent attacks. The report also touches on homegrown terrorism and extremist activities conducted through the exploitation and use of the Internet.