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facto start of the War on Terror against Islamist extremists. Ten years which have seen attacks by al-Qaeda and their sympathisers, two long and costly wars, the deaths of thousands of people around the world and the introduction of stringent security measures in daily life and controversial laws and policies which, rightly or wrongly, infringe human rights. But, 10 years on, Osama Bin Laden is dead, assassinated this May by US Navy Seals in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He didn’t die a martyr, but a middle-aged man, apparently in poor health, hiding away in isolation with his wives and children, waiting for that inevitable day that the US would come knocking (although I don’t think the commandoes bothered to knock before entering), and using said relatives as human shields. It is said by some that the al-Qaeda


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network will survive without its founder and leader, but for how long remains to be seen. Current leader, former number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri lacks the persona and high profile of his predecessor, and has been relatively quiet in the six months since Bin Laden’s death. And al-Qaeda has failed to play a role in the Arab Spring, and subsequent overthrow of Colonel Qaddafi in Libya, although one Libyan rebel leader is allegedly an Islamist extremist who had been detained and the subject of extraordinary rendition by


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he whole world was aware of the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 last month. A decade since the de


the CIA. Maybe the organisation will survive and continue its war on the West, and on freedom and democracy, but no extremist ideology lasts in any significant form forever. How long was it before communism effectively died following the downing of its most significant icon, the Berlin Wall? On the other side of the extremist


fence, Anders Breivik, a right-wing fundamentalist, appalled by what he saw as the Islamisation and forced multiculturalism in Norwegian society, took revenge not on his Muslim ‘enemies’ but on those he viewed as responsible for this ‘cultural Marxism’, the Norwegian Labour Party. Scores of young people were killed at a Labour Party camp when he gunned them down one by one, and several people were killed by a car bomb blast he detonated outside government buildings in Oslo. He wanted to preserve a Christian Europe with an ultra right-wing ideology, describing himself as a Justiciar Knight. For last October’s CTG, I wrote a report on the threat to Scandinavia from Islamist extremists, and concluded the threat to Norway was low, not just from al-Qaeda and its affiliates, but from terrorist attacks in general. It was hard to foresee mass murder by a right-wing extremist on the horizon, but these attacks are a reminder for us all to be attuned to threats from every extremist ideology in every corner of the world.


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