Author and political science professor John Mueller said, during a Foreign Affairs roundtable discussion on September 7, 2006: “Working with and updating data published in Anthony Cordesman’s The Challenge of Biological Terrorism, I calculate that the number of deaths inflicted since 9/11 by al Qaeda and al Qaeda types across the globe outside of war zones has been around 800 or 900. Moreover, in a large number of instances, the ‘connection’ of these murderous terrorists to al Qaeda is atmospheric at most.”
– Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page 184