Most Effective Terrorgroup

Al Qaida is pretty effective indeed, they were instrumental against the USSR in Afghanistan and recently made the US leave Saudi Arabia. America's response to Al Qaida was to invade Afghanistan, which failed to bag Bin Ladin. Invasion of Iraq, as everyone who doesn't exclusively watch Fox TV knows, has nothing to do with AQ. By removing Saddam, who was an enemy of AQ, the US made a favour for the AQ, and turned Iraq, which was previously a safe zone, into AQ operations theatre number one. Not to mention the millions of Muslims everywhere (and many others) who started to see the US as an evil crusading power, just the thing AQ wants. This is all bad for US, so why is the US doing it? Can they really be that stupid? Bush II apparently is, but the others aren't:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4228717.stm

'Earlier that week, US oil giant Exxon Mobil announced that it had made a record $25.3bn (�13.4bn) profit in 2004 as it benefited from the surge in crude oil prices.

ChevronTexaco recently said its fourth quarter profits had nearly doubled to $3.44bn, against the same period in 2003.'

http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2005/01/31/da ily42.html

'Defense contractor Raytheon Co. Thursday reported a 16 percent increase in fourth quarter 2004 earnings.'

As to other effective terror organisations, Vietcong was very effective. Defeated France and the US. Che's group in Cuban revolution was also very effective, they took over most of the country with a force of 150-300 people (of course, the Batista regime was very ineffective).

IRA (original)

American Revolutionaries

Eztel (Menachem Begin's group)

were pretty successful......They all won.

a;long with a worldwide increase in AlQueada recruitment and a new theatrer for them to operate in , yes.

Yes our wonderful ally Saudi Arabia ...

I applaud the Spanish election, Jose Maria Asnar immediately jumped the gun when the attack happened and blamed the ETA which was wrong, Spain also had nothing to gain in Iraq, and so voters threw him out because he blamed the wrong people.

I dont care if the peopel in Iraq are free, they really arent free yet anyway, but in the Cold War we were smart, we allied with evil people to uphold overal strategic goals.  This worked, we should have doen it tacitly with Saddam, he was secular, he was powerful, and he stablizied the rejoin after being neutered after 91, most of the people he tortured where the people we now fight.  Military action against Saudi Arabia makes 50 times more sense than action against Iraq when fighting crazy extremists.

@ Diplomant the Asla was very well organized, i have never heard something about them.

Al Qaidas aims are similar with the aims of the "Black Hand", they wanted to provoke their enemy to an overreaction, so that they could get a peoples insurgency, but Al Qaida failed at the moment, because the US did not overreact rather they (ab)used  the 9.11 for their stragical aims, the question is what happens continue in Iraq and if the US is going to attack a further islamic Country.

What is the KKK doing now, I thought they are history.