%0 Journal Article %T La reconducci¨®n estrat¨¦gica de Al-Qaeda: £¿del liderazgo de Osama bin Laden a la dimensi¨®n masiva-popular? %A Ahmed Ghotme %A Rafat %J Civilizar Ciencias Sociales y Humanas %D 2012 %I Universidad Sergio Arboleda %X this article seeks to establish the relationship of global strategic variables of al-qaeda with religious ideology, political islam, trying to incorporate a cross section and total phenomenon. it argues that the link lies in the expansion strategy and top-down decentralization created by the central base of al-qaeda, where regional networks have some autonomy but are determined by the central leadership and his adaptation of the islamist ideology to an internationalist shed, revolutionary and violent organization. %K al-qaeda %K islam %K international terrorist networks %K usa %K asymmetrical balance %K counter-terrorism strategy. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1657-89532012000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en