The claim of responsibility by a local organization with ties to al-Qaida for the recent blasts that rocked Algeria unleashed a wave of Western analysis about the extent to which Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network is being supplemented or replaced by regional groups whose activities where not previously global in scale. Analysts differ about whether al-Qaida leaders are directly involved in the decision making of such newly affiliated groups, but they say al-Qaida's influence on tactics is clear. picked by philotri 1 year ago