ISIS vs. Al Qaeda: Jihadism’s global civil war
www.brookings.edu
By the mid-1990s, he wanted to reorient the movement as a whole, focusing it on what he saw as the bigger enemy underwriting all these corrupt local regimes: the United States. —join Al Qaeda, adopt an anti-Western agenda and live to fight another day. Al Qaeda’s emphasis on fighting the “far enemy”
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- By the mid-1990s, he wanted to reorient the movement as a whole, focusing it on what he saw as the bigger enemy underwriting all these corrupt local regimes: the United States.
- —join Al Qaeda, adopt an anti-Western agenda and live to fight another day.
- Al Qaeda’s emphasis on fighting the “far enemy” (the United States) over the “near enemy” (repressive regimes in the Muslim world
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