Is al-Qaeda connected to other terrorist organizations? Yes. Among them:
Egyptian Islamic Jihad Jamaat Islamiyya (Egypt) The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Islamic Army of Aden (Yemen) Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad (Kashmir) Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Salafist Group for Call and Combat and the Armed Islamic Group (Algeria) Abu Sayyaf Group (Malaysia, Philippines) These groups share al-Qaeda’s Sunni Muslim fundamentalist views. Some terror experts theorize that Al-Qaeda, after the loss of it Afghanistan base, may be increasingly reliant on sympathetic affiliates to carry out it agenda. Intelligence officials and terrorism experts also say that al-Qaeda has stepped up its cooperation on logistics and training with Hezbollah, a radical, Iran-backed Lebanese militia drawn from the minority Shiite strain of Islam.
