Age Quote by Malcolm Nance

Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS…

— George Packer

The fact that there are now many entities that may have some loose affiliation with a former core Al Qaeda - or who have…

— Graham T. Allison

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

— Maajid Nawaz

Al Qaeda is a racially diverse organization that is well aware of its dependence on a labor pool dominated by Arab Muslim men. It…

— Malcolm Nance

“illiterate. Al Qaeda recruiters make use of their poverty, despair, resentment, and eagerness to take revenge against the American troops to recruit them.53 The…

— Mia Bloom

“In al-Qaeda we see a terrorist grouping with, in many ways, a medieval ideology, employing today's technology to great advantage. It works in a…

— Eliza Manningham-Buller

Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States.…

— John O. Brennan

The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are…

— Peter Bergen

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

— Janet Napolitano

Al Qaeda and ISIS may have global aspirations, but their ability to penetrate a society is strongly influenced by local conditions.

— Tedros Adhanom

Al Qaeda has dominated the battlefield of the soul among the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied. It promises action instead of discussion.

— Malcolm Nance

Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That's the question. You…

— Bashar al-Assad