{"id":122951,"date":"2018-12-03T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=122951"},"modified":"2018-12-03T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:04:12","slug":"230000-jihadists-in-70-countries-since-9-11-the-number-of-al-qaeda-affiliated-terrorists-has-quadrupled-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/12\/230000-jihadists-in-70-countries-since-9-11-the-number-of-al-qaeda-affiliated-terrorists-has-quadrupled-study\/","title":{"rendered":"230,000 \u201cJihadists\u201d in 70 Countries: Since 9\/11 the Number of Al Qaeda Affiliated Terrorists Has Quadrupled. Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article__heading\"><em>Mission accomplished? Number of Sunni terrorists worldwide quadrupled from Sept 11, 2001<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_122952\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/alqaeda-terror-usa-islam.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122952\" class=\"wp-image-122952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/alqaeda-terror-usa-islam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/alqaeda-terror-usa-islam.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/alqaeda-terror-usa-islam-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/alqaeda-terror-usa-islam-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of men with Al-Qaeda flags in Idlib province. \u00a9 REUTERS\/Khalil Ashawi<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>23 Nov 2018 &#8211; <\/em>Despite Washington\u2019s extremely costly worldwide \u2018War on Terror\u2019, nearly four times as many Sunni Islamic militants are operating around the world today as on September 11, 2001, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 230,000 jihadists are spread across 70 countries, with the largest concentrations of terrorists located in Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/s3fs-public\/publication\/Jones_EvolvingTerroristThreat_FULL_WEB.pdf?F4jhyhPqySTHHFUHSwwfAwq8MspjnJ4q\" >Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/a>, a Washington DC think tank.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking reported spike in the number of Sunni jihadists worldwide raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the US-led Global War on Terrorism, which was launched in the wake of the deadly attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fMTu-s67hAY<\/p>\n<p>US taxpayers have already forked over a mind-melting $5.9 trillion to fund the massive and increasingly secretive war \u2013 but the noble pursuit of eradicating terrorism has apparently had the opposite effect. Ironically, the think tank has called for the US to double-down, arguing that withdrawing forces from Africa and the Middle East would only embolden terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bqfq4uzBfmH\/?utm_source=ig_embed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>More: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/video-911-opens-up-an-era-of-crisis-social-upheaval-and-global-warfare\/5543994\" >Video: 9\/11 Opens up an Era of Crisis, Social Upheaval and Global Warfare<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/444668-more-terrorists-us-study-war\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Nov 2018 &#8211; US taxpayers have already forked over a mind-melting $5.9 trillion to fund the massive and increasingly secretive war \u2013 but the noble pursuit of eradicating terrorism has apparently had the opposite effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":122952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}