The Myht of Al Queda?

From Newsweek -- Hirsh: Debunking the Myth of Al Qaeda

For a different perspective on the war-on-terror and Al Queda read this thought-provoking web-exclusive commentary from Newsweek's Michael Hirsh.

... this sort of debunking has occurred with many Al Qaeda "lieutenants" whose gauzy reputations are reduced to pill-sized smallness ...

"In an open system like a network, the bumbler level is always going to be high because of the ease of entry," says John Arquilla, an intelligence expert at the Naval Postgraduate School. "That's how someone like [American Taliban supporter] John Walker Lindh can walk into the high councils of Al Qaeda and meet bin Laden. And recently the bumbler factor has gone up considerably."

America ventured into the lands of jihad and willingly offered itself as a target in place of the local regimes.