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[There is] a rising tide of anger in the Islamic world toward Al Qaeda and its affiliates, whose victims since September 11 have mostly been fellow Muslims…[They consist of] religious scholars, former fighters, and militants who had once had great influence over Al Qaeda’s leaders, and who—alarmed by the targeting of civilians in the West, the senseless killings in Muslim countries, and Al Qaeda’s barbaric tactics in Iraq—have turned against the organization, many just in the past year.