Many had figured the Al-Qaeda was on the run and very disorganized following its "eviction" from Afghanistan. Certainly, it was thought, that with the U.S. armed forces capturing or killing so many of its members and senior leaders the whole organization was on the ropes and almost down for the count. Why wouldn't it be considered nearly extinct? It no longer had a place to base its operations and its leaders, especially Osama Bin Laden were on the run, hiding every chance they got so their ability to control the group was felt to have been dealt a severe blow. The world, especially America, began to feel a little bit safer and felt that Al-Qaeda could no longer mount an attack against U.S. interests at home or abroad and if they could, the attack would be minor in scale and cause little damage.
Then came the attacks in Saudi Arabia last week as well as the attack in Morocco and both are believed to be tied to the Al-Qaeda network. As a result of this, the entire country is on alert for possible terror attacks and so, once again, Al-Qaeda has been rushed to the forefront of American worries and fears. This has proven that the war against Al-Qaeda, even though it purged many of it's members and scattered them throughout the globe, has still failed to achieve it's final objective which is to end it's reign of terror. So what makes Al-Qaeda still so effective even thought its senior leaders are on the run and the group appears to no longer have a base from which to operate or train it's terrorists?
