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Istishad as an Ideological and Practical tool in the Hands of Al-Qaeda
suicide bombers attacked a number of targets in the Moroccan capital of
Casablanca which ended with 45 people dead and additional 100 wounded
Saudi Arabia whose nationals have been the dominant component of Al-Qaeda's
cadre and its main financial source has also become one of Al-Qaeda's most hated
foes. The suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia were carried out by local cells led by
Afghan Alumni some of them like Ueyeri and Abd el Aziz Muqrin served in Al-
Qaeda camos served as agents of influence and later delegated the concept of
Istishad to the new recruits in the Saudi kingdom who operated under their
command. The suicide campaign in Saudi Arabia in the last 2 years forced its
government to take aggressive counter measures and to face the problem of terror
in the name of Islam to which they have contributed for many years.
Figure 6: Number of Casualties and Bombers in Saudi Arabia
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Egypt has just recently joined the Arab countries which witnessed suicide attacks
in their territory. On April 2005 two separate suicide attacks were carried out in
Cairo, again tourists and on July 2005 the most devastating suicide attacks
occurred again in the resort area of Sharm al Sheikh causing about 90 fatalities.
Iraq has definitely become the most prominent arena where suicide attacks
enduring the most vicious and largest quantity of bombers in the world, even
though the relative short time since its start. Since March 2003 and up till the end
of April 2006 hundreds of suicide bombing were carried out by both local Iraqis
and foreign perpetrators most of them apparently belonging to the global jihadist
(See Figure 7) 11 .
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