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October 18, 2012

Al-Qaeda's Ideology Lives On

Clifford May, National Review

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At the Aspen Security Forum this past summer, Peter Bergen, CNN’s intrepid national-security analyst and a director at the New America Foundation, gave a talk titled: “Time to Declare Victory: Al Qaeda Is Defeated.”

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TAGGED: Islamism, al-Qaeda

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