BBC NEWS | World | Middle East: "'Ahmed Yassin was the Palestinian Bin Laden,' said the Israeli defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, after Israel assassinated the Hamas spiritual leader.
Al-Qaeda is generally viewed as a global movement. It has its roots among Arabs who received military training from the CIA in the 1980s and forged ties during the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Its aim: Apparently to encourage a clash of civilisations between the West and the Muslim world.
Its tactic: To target the US and Middle Eastern regimes that are allied to it, hoping to draw a crushing response that will widen the breach between them and strengthen a radical Islamic identity as a separate political and military force. "
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