Summary
Owen Bennett-Jones asks if the real beneficiaries of the multiple failures of the Arab revolutions are the Islamist militants both of al-Qaeda and its increasingly violent allies. Does the West's tacit support for the reassertion of military control in Egypt send a powerful message to would-be Islamists - that they will never be allowed to achieve power through the ballot box? Producer: Leo Hornak.
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| 0:40.6 | For over 40 years, Analysis has been examining the ideas and forces which shape the modern world. |
| 0:47.0 | This week Owen Bennett Jones looks at the growing strength of Al-Qaeda and its affiliates and asks whether the Arab Spring has been replaced |
| 0:56.8 | by a new jihadi spring. |
| 0:58.8 | Good evening. |
| 1:01.8 | Tonight I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted |
| 1:07.9 | an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. |
| 1:13.0 | Back in 2011, many thought that moment marked the beginning of the end of al-Qaeda. |
| 1:19.3 | But three years later, that assessment seems faulty. Remember what Afghanistan was all about when it began? |
| 1:25.4 | Denying Al-Qaeda territory? Well now jihadis in Syria and Iraq do control huge tracts of territory. In fact across the Arab world |
| 1:35.4 | Al-Qaeda sympathizers and affiliates are more active than ever. How has that happened? |
| 1:40.6 | This is Owen Bennett Jones and in this edition of analysis I'll be |
| 1:44.7 | asking whether the Middle East's Arab Spring is being followed by a jihadi spring. |
| 1:51.2 | To the whole al-Hai Spring. spring. |
| 2:00.0 | Last year, Chahadi groups in Syria, this is one of their propaganda videos, made a breakthrough. They started not just taking but holding territory. |
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