Bloody Rivals: Paris Attack Helps Al Qaeda Gain Edge on ISIS

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The terrorist rampage at a Paris satirical magazine left the West reeling, but the attack was also the latest salvo in a lesser known fight, the public relations war between Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in which the prizes are funds from extremist benefactors around the globe and Muslim radical conscripts ready to kill and die on command.
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Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the two groups will continue to compete for terrorism market share, but for the West, the danger remains the same – “the overall appeal of militant Islam.”

“We will see the tide change in favor of one group or another, but I think it is a distinction without much of a difference,” he said.
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