Country Reports on Terrorism 2013

Auteur : Millennia2025

Source : United States Department of State Publication, Bureau of Counterterrorism

The terrorist threat continued to evolve rapidly in 2013, with an increasing number of groups around the world – including both AQ affiliates and other terrorist organizations – posing a threat to the United States, their allies, and their interests.      As a result of both ongoing worldwide efforts against the organization and senior leadership losses, AQ core's leadership has been degraded, limiting its ability to conduct attacks and direct its followers.  Subsequently, 2013 saw the rise of increasingly aggressive and autonomous AQ affiliates and like- minded groups in the Middle East and Africa who took advantage of the weak governance and instability in the region to broaden and deepen their operations.      AQ leader Ayman al-Zawahiri experienced difficulty in maintaining influence throughout the AQ organization and was rebuffed in his attempts to mediate a dispute among AQ affiliates operating in Syria, with ISIL publicly dissociating its group from AQ.  Guidance issued by Zawahiri in 2013 for AQ affiliates to avoid collateral damage was routinely disobeyed, notably in increasingly violent attacks by these affiliates against civilian populations.

=> Direct link to the 318 pages report:
     http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/225886.pdf

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