Study delves deep into global terrorism in past 2 decades
Political expert Hani Nassira has finalized a new study in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington.
Titled 'Two decades after 9/11', the
new study talks about four main transformations in and the ten features of
global terrorism.
It is published by the Trends Center
in the United Arab Emirates and was released on September 9, two days before
the anniversary of the attacks.
It includes an anatomical reading
characterized by its accurate and gradual analysis of global terrorism, and the
changes happening in it, whether at the level of extremist groups, violent
extremism or the war on terrorism.
Major transformations
Nassira begins his study with an
introduction in which he highlights the great transformations witnessed by
global terrorism.
These transformations, according to
him, include the re-establishment of the Taliban and its control over
Afghanistan.
This control, he says, was preceded by
an American withdrawal from the country, following the longest war waged by the
US outside its borders.
The war stimulated the appetites of other
terrorist organizations to return to the Afghan stage and the stage in other
countries in the region.
These organizations included the
Islamic State group and al-Qaeda, Nassira says in his study.
The study also reviews the stages of
the development of terrorism in the past two decades.
International terrorism, it says, passed
through four stages, the rise and spread of terrorism organizationally and
ideologically being the first of these stages.
It says this stage spanned period
between 2001 and 2011.
In this stage, the study says,
international terrorism witnessed a qualitative development.
It adds that the second stage is an
intermediate one between contraction and upheaval.
It starts, according to the author
of the study, with the killing of al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, in May 2011.
Bin Laden was succeeded in the
command of the organization by Ayman al-Zawahiri.
The study also dedicates some of its
space to the many developments that happened during the same stage on the Arab
and international arenas.
