time for another Cairo speech?
 

FBI Counter-Terror Official: Al Qaeda 'Thrives' After Dictators Fall
Al Qaeda Releases New Web Video

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By LEE FERRAN
April 15, 2011

On the same day reports emerged of a new al Qaeda video that praised the revolutions sweeping the Arab world, one the U.S.'s top counter-terror officials warned the terror organization "thrives" in the political unrest that follows.


"The governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have drastically changed in the last six months," FBI Assistant Director of Counter-Terrorism Mark Giuliano said Thursday. "They are now led by transitional or interim governments, military regimes, or democratic alliances with no established track record on counterterrorism efforts. Al Qaeda thrives in such conditions and countries of weak governance and political instability -- countries in which governments may be sympathetic to their campaign of violence."

Giuliano made the comments at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy just hours before the first reports emerged of the new al Qaeda video, which features separate appearances by al Qaeda's number two commander, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and American-born key commander in al Qaeda in the Arabian Penninsula (AQAP), Anwar al-Awlaki, each praising the recent uprisings. In the hour-plus long video, al-Zawahiri orders Muslims in Egypt to create an Islamic state there and calls for the Arab armies of the Middle East to intervene in Libya to oust dictator Moammar Gadhafi before "Western aid... turns into invasions."

FBI Counterterror Official: Al Qaeda 'Thrives' After Dictators Fall - ABC News

It will be interesting to see how the radical elements within Islam respond to the changing situation. If the Middle East does in fact go somewhat down the path of democratic reform, it should undercut a key pillar of the militant groups that the dictatorships as enabled by the west aren't providing for the general population.

-spence

well, Iran seems to have far more influence in the region than the "ONE"....but maybe another speech will swoon the muslim street into some democratic reform? He had their tongues on the floors last time...right?


I'm just trying to figure out if we've joined al Qaeda or al Qaeda has joined us?

Coptic Christians lining up to flee Egypt
April 14, 2011

What do they know that Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, and the mainstream media don’t want to admit?

Lawyers who specialize in working with Coptic Egyptians are saying that since the Muslim Brotherhood have shown signs that they are well on their way to securing much power in the new Egyptian government, they have received hundreds of calls from Copts wanting to get the hell out of Dodge.

“They are insisting on leaving Egypt because the risks of staying here are too great,” Naguib Gabriel, a Coptic human rights lawyer, told Egypt Daily News. “Many Christians are afraid of the future because of the fanatics in the mosques.”

At least 20 Christians have been killed among numerous violent attacks on Copts since Mubarak’s ouster. That’s Democariah for you – democracy Muslim style.