AL-QAEDA HAS A TON OF ENEMIES- THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO GET THE OUTSIDE SUPPORT NEEDED TO CARRYOUT AN ACT OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM. John Mueller 2007 (Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center Professor of Political Science, "REACTIONS AND OVERREACTIONS TO TERRORISM Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August September 3, 2007, http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jmueller/APSA2007.PDF. In additional Qaeda--the chief demon group--is unlikely to be trusted by just about anyone. As Peter Bergen (2007, 19) has pointed out, the terrorist group's explicit enemies list includes not only Christians and Jews, but all Middle Eastern regimes Muslims who don't share its views most Western countries the governments of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Russia most news organizations the United Nations and international NGOs. Most of the time it didn't get along all that well even with its host in Afghanistan, the Taliban government (Burke 2003, 150, 164-65; Wright 2006, 230-1, 287-88; Cullison 2004).
