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Al-Qaeda sprung into the popular conscience of the world with the attacks of 9/11. Since then the organization has taken a beating - many of its senior commanders were killed or arrested, others are in hiding. Given the various counterterrorism initiatives, it has proven more difficult to source arms, to move money and to merely communicate.

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