CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings June 22, 2024
Threat. This is far more dangerous than al qaeda for four reasons. Number one it is its own selfgenerated fully fledged transnational insurgency. Al qaeda, in all the places where it existed in the last 14 years, was a parasitic terrorist organization that attached it self to indigenous insurgencies, whether it was alshabab in somalia or whether it was the taliban in afghanistan, it did not generate its own mass base of mobilization as a true mooist insurgency should or one that follows maos rule book for mobilization. Isis is different. Isis is its own selfgenerated insurgency. And of course ...