WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Al Qaeda will be replaced by increasingly decentralized Muslim militants over the next 15 years who will feed on globalization to find recruits and stage attacks, a new U.S. intelligence report said on Thursday.

The report by the National Intelligence Council, the U.S. intelligence community’s think tank, also said the Iraq conflict could provide recruitment for a new class of militants, who would disperse and gradually replace the al Qaeda members who had earned their stripes in Afghanistan.

“We expect that by 2020 al Qaeda will have been superseded by similarly inspired but more diffuse Islamic extremist groups,” said the report, called “Mapping the Global Future.”
Full Article: nytimes.com/reuters

Well, since it’s them doing the mapping, they should know.

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