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Counterattack
March 18, 2004 1919 GMT
The March 11 attack in Spain indicates that al Qaeda still exists. It also indicates that al Qaeda has a strategy that strikes at the soft underbelly of the U.S. strategy in the war. The political success of the Spanish bombings will encourage al Qaeda and could lead to further militant attempts to work the fault line created in nations that joined the U.S. war in Iraq in an effort to disturb the U.S. alliance.

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