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Experts Say Terrorists Regroup, See Lengthy War

The international war on terror will prove a long drawn-out battle as militants reorganize themselves into smaller groups, Asian defense experts said Monday.”Al Qaeda has broken its organization into smaller units of elements, making a network in third world nations,” Wan Usman, head of strategic studies at the University of Jakarta in Indonesia told a seminar on the changing global security environment. The network had penetrated institutions, and managed to fan destructive radical anti-Western teachings in some Muslim schools in the region, he said. Pakistan, a key ally of the United States in the war on terror, organized the seminar as part of an international defense exhibition that formally opens in Karachi Tuesday.Full Story