[Mb-civic] A Dwarf Known as Al Qaeda

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A DWARF KNOWN AS AL QAEDA

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A Dwarf Known as Al Qaeda 
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The threat posed by the group is hugely overblown.

By Dirk Laabs
Dirk Laabs is a journalist based in Germany.

November 30 2004

The German federal police, the BKA, was once famous for its relentless, coolly efficient pursuit of terrorists. Hundreds of BKA agents eliminated the first three generations of the Red Army Faction, a terror organization that killed scores of politicians and civilians in the 1970s and 1980s. Then the hunt was on for the fourth generation. Hundreds of millions of dollars were invested; again, legions of agents were dispatched. 

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