can again become a serious threat if America chooses to let it get up off the mat. Other significant takfiri threats remain outside Iraq. such as the al Qaeda cell that has been battling Lebanese military forces from the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and the aggressive al Qaeda group in the Islamic Maghreb that has proclaimed its intention of conquering all of North Africa and restoring Muslim rule to Spain. Each al Qaeda franchise is subtly different from the others. and there is no onesizefitsall solution to defeating them. But our experience in Iraq already offers lessons for the larger fight.