It is common knowledge that the recruiting grounds have INCREASED since March 2003. And so have the police investigations into their activities in other parts of the world...we are finding more and more Islamist cells, but by no means all because they are forming every day.
I wish some people would read the news.
It was the most dreadful thing to witness such atrocities that happened on 9/11 and most certainly AlQaeda cells existed before. Undisputed International intelligence reveals that Iraq was the ONLY country where the were NOT operating in any large number - Bush linked AlQaeda and Iraq as a
reason for his actions in that country, which then got changed to Saddam having WMDs. Whatever the reason, US involvement there will have created more fanatics to fight 'for the cause'.