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[[Al Qaida]] is the 21st century's first addition to any list of well-known secret organizations.

Summed up by Jason Burke on 21 March 2004, for the ''Guardian'':

:"Al-Qaeda is as much an ideology or a set of values as a single organisation led by a single leader." [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5914.htm]

The BBC Documentary [[The Power of Nightmares]] shows Egyptian roots in radical violent "Islamist" groups.

Marc Sageman asserts that Al Qaida has Egyptian origins, Egyptian ideologies, and Egyptian leaders. [http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20041101.middleeast.sageman.understandingterrornetworks.html]

== External Resources ==

*Rowan Scarborough, [http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031229-120302-2009r Drug Money Sustains al Qaeda], ''Washington Times'', December 29, 2003: "Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network has become deeply involved in international drug trafficking, using the money to buy arms and, possibly, radioactive material for use in a so-called 'dirty' nuclear bomb, senior U.S. officials say."

*Faye Bowers, “[http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1124/p02s01-wogi.html Terrorists turn up the dial in global PR war]: Al Qaeda is using the Internet and video outlets with growing speed, volume, and sophistication, ''Christian Science Monitor'', November 24, 2004.