The 10-year, U.S.-led campaign against al-Qaeda has claimed Osama bin Laden and many of his top lieutenants while failing to extinguish the threat they posed. Islamic militants have adapted to the war on terror, creating new dangers that are harder to detect and defeat.
Terrorists inspired by bin Laden’s violent message are determined to carry out smaller attacks and remain fixated on aviation and economic targets such as oil and gas fields, pipelines, transportation routes and refineries, according to counterterrorism experts inside and outside the government.
Followers are using new and harder-to-monitor tools to preach, communicate and raise money, and are trying to recruit operatives who arouse less suspicion. Such efforts were highlighted yesterday by a government warning of a possible strike on New York or Washington timed to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“This is an organization that has been dynamically changing,” Michigan Republican Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a Sept. 6 meeting with reporters and editors in Bloomberg News’ Washington Bureau. Where money once came primarily from the Persian Gulf, he said al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in northern Africa has become the movement’s biggest funder, through kidnappings and other crimes.
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