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This paper describes and analyses the various components observed in the current web of global terrorism. The author characterizes the current web of global terrorism including a reconstituted al-Qaeda, the territorial extensions it has managed to establish, a heterogeneous set of affiliated groups and organizations, and finally an indefinite number of self-constituted and spontaneously formed independent local cells. He argues that it would be a mistake to confuse the latter part for the whole, implying that global terrorism today is an amorphous phenomenon, when in fact it is polymorphous.