Is Al-Qaeda on the brink of conducting new wave of attacks in the West?
CeifiT Special Report Al-Qaeda’s External Operations Unit Update- Rehabilitating, Functioning, Training and Plotting During the recent weeks, accumulated reports suggest that Al-Qaeda’s External Operations unit, responsible for Al-Qaeda’s external operations (outside Afghanistan and Pakistan), has been able to maintain, and possibly extend its activity in recruiting operatives, providing designated training and plotting attacks in the international arena. These indications are significantly important in light of different speculations expressed in recent years as to the unit’s incompetence and lack of activity. Al-Qaeda’s External Operations Unit has traditionally been the sole arm of the organization to conduct terrorist attacks in the international arena.[1] However, the unit has faced different hardships in the recent years. Its last successful attack took place in London on July 2005, and since then all of the unit’s attempts to carry out attacks have failed. In addition, many of t
