(Globe and Mail - Canada) Paul Adams - Mohammed Saleh, a reporter for the Al Hayat newspaper, is regarded as an expert on the shadowy world of violent Islamist groups. Saleh says that while al Qaeda is "definitely weaker now" than it was a year ago, if only because of the United States's enormous effort to crush it, the political and religious forces that allowed it to recruit so many fanatical followers have grown stronger in the past year, not weaker.
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