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Monday, July 25, 2005

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"They all want to be part of this phenomenon," said Loretta Napoleoni, author of Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, as she explained the terror wave. "It's not like someone is telling [the militants], 'You bomb on the first of July.'"

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"Iraq has been an absolute gift to al-Qaida," said Paul Rogers, a professor of peace studies at England's Bradford University. "[Al-Qaida] seems to have no difficulty in getting more and more recruits."

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The attacks in London and Egypt also could be seen as an attempt to demonstrate al-Qaida's prowess in the face of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, said Mustafa Alani, a security analyst at a Dubai-based think-tank, the Gulf Research Center.

"They're saying this war is not winnable," Alani said. "If you look at the map of al-Qaida operations, they stretch from London to Bali to Istanbul to Mombasa to Saudi Arabia and Iraq."

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