al Qaeda--decentralized or what? (was: Antiwar mvm't losing steam????)

[hncl at panix.com]

I was under the impression the Al Qaeda was decentralized myself, but now
the Washington Post rolls out this as justification for the latest warning
of imminent attacks:

	Other intelligence has been gathered indicating that 

	Osama bin Laden and some of his top lieutenants have 

	essentially delegated authority to order and conduct 

	new attacks down the chain of command, perhaps even 

	to individual cells of bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist 

	network, senior officials said

(see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7816-2001Oct29.html for
the whole thing)  Neither the NY Times or the UK web papers (Independent, 
Guardian) mentions this piece of intelligence.

--
Curtiss

Doug wrote:


> And have anarchists talked at all about how Al Qaeda is organized in 
> a rather anarcho-friendly way? Not quite leaderless, but close, with very 
> loose structures, more network than hierarchy, with considerable autonomy 
> for local operatives, etc. Are they your evil doubles?
>