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"'What we call al Qaeda being the kind of structured, disciplined network that was the perpetrator of the 9/11 mass murders, this group, this leadership, this network no longer exists as a disciplined hierarchical network.' Rik Coolsaet
Is the current hysteria around international terrorism and Osama Bin Laden's al Qaeda based on myth or reality?
This week Amsterdam Forum takes a look at the 'war on terror' from a different perspective, one that says terrorist incidents are at a 30-year low and that al Qaeda is a spent force.
Rik Coolsaet - Director of the Security and Global Governance Department at the Royal Institute for International Relations in Belgium � argues that the current hype around terrorism is nothing new."
