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Or maybe not, given that the capital is now seen as the epicentre of western terrorism, hmm, unhurrah.
Many Yemeni officials and Western terrorism analysts agree that Mr. Raymi, a veteran jihadist and the main planner of Qaeda operations here, is the group's most important and dangerous member.
But that suggestion was one of several aspects of the report that drew criticism from Western terrorism and counterinsurgency experts working outside the government who were given the outline of the findings.
Western terrorism specialists also said it was possible that the attack had nothing to do with the recent hostilities in the Middle East because it appeared to be an assault that would have required substantial time to plan.
Muslims from the Middle East, Indonesia and Chechnya would contend that they confronted western terrorism decades before 9/11, whereas the west would counter by claiming it retaliated when the war reached its native soil.
The best known of the jihadist groups operating in Mali, Aqim was founded by Algerians from the GSPC (Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat) and is often described by western terrorism experts as a "franchise" of al-Qaida "central", akin to groups with both local and global agendas in Yemen and Somalia.
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He has been one of the few politicians to speak out forcefully against anti-Western terrorism.
In Iraq and Indonesia, these policies have rebounded on us, in the form of anti-western terrorism.
No answers yet, but the spectre of anti-western terrorism has been raised by the international inquiry into the kidnapping of 16 tourists in Yemen on December 28th.
A smooth election on Wednesday would cap a successful turnaround for a country that earlier this decade was reeling from anti-Western terrorism, breakaway regions and Islamic extremism.
Pakistan, with its huge population (around 200 million), large army, nuclear weapons, extensive extremist networks and diaspora in the West, is a far more important country than Afghanistan and presents a vastly greater potential threat of anti-Western terrorism.
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