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pReznit Joystick's Iraq war helped boost Al Qaeda
While the flag-waving happy idiot pReznit Stupid was killing people in Iraq for nothing, bin Laden was busily retooling the organization.

The U.S.-led war to show the Middle East who's boss on Iraq gave Al Qaeda the opportunity to reinvigorate its weakened terrorist network with new recruits and more funding, say experts on terrorism. The Iraq war 'clearly increased the terrorist impulse,' said Jonathan Stevenson, senior fellow for counter-terrorism at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

'The political masters in the U.S. and Europe underestimated the extent to which bin Laden would use the war in Iraq as a propaganda weapon to rejuvenate the movement and attract more funds,' said Paul Wilkinson, head of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence in Scotland. 'As far as the war against Al Qaeda goes, it possibly has been counterproductive. We face turbulent times ahead.'

'So while the Al Qaeda leadership has been weakened, the network as a whole has become more elusive than before,' [Stevenson] said, adding that responsibility for planning and carrying out attacks rests more than ever with local groups.' - link (via democrats.com).