Canada's Role in Combating al Qaeda

International, Regional, and Homegrown Dimensions

Author(s): Alex Wilner
Journal Title: Strategic Datalink
Issue: 11
Publisher(s): Canadian International Council
Publication Year: 2009

More than seven years following its devastating attack on the United States, al Qaeda remains a complex global security challenge. Internationally, it continues to facilitate acts of mass-casualty terrorism in over two dozen countries. Regionally, it has elicited the allegiance of a variety of local organizations. And within Western states, small gangs of radicalized citizens, so called homegrown terrorists, espouse al Qaeda's ideology to justify attacking their neighbors. In all aspects, Canada is today at the forefront of the conflict with al Qaeda. Dr. Wilner identifies Canada's role and offers a winning strategy that combines measures that diminish al Qaeda's coercive capabilities and developmental, political and diplomatic efforts that degrade al Qaeda's ideological potency.

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