Iraq Crisis Has Damaged US International Standing: International Institute for Strategic Studies

Washington's policy during the Iraq crisis has harmed its position on the world stage, the leading IISS international security think-tank said.

In its annual strategic survey, The International Institute for Strategic Studies also warned that the threat posed by the al-Qaeda network, blamed for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has not diminished.

The al-Qaeda network was "now reconstituted and doing business in a somewhat different manner, but more insidious and just as dangerous as as in its pre-11 September incarnation," the report said.

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