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FBI Counter-Terror Official: Al Qaeda 'Thrives' After Dictators Fall
abc news ^ | April 15, 2011 | LEE FERRAN

Posted on 04/16/2011 12:15:29 PM PDT by george76

Al Qaeda Releases New Web Video, Official Says Al Qaeda in Yemen More Dangerous Than Osama Bin Laden's 'Core' Group.

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.

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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."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; cia; fbi; gadhafi; libya; moammargadhafi; yemen

1 posted on 04/16/2011 12:15:32 PM PDT by george76
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Our CIA is shipping weapons to the rebels(AQ) in Libya via the Gulf states. Our FBI is in charge of tracking them down and keeping them from be recycled to other areas..if you know about Gun Walking it all makes perfect sense.


2 posted on 04/16/2011 12:18:05 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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This is a good example of how our national interest is served by stability and endangered by chaos.


3 posted on 04/16/2011 12:24:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: george76

I’m wondering at this point and this is probably so completely off the wall, I’m wrong, whether the game is to somehow create a buffer against China.

In their Never-Never Land of long range “planning” they hope to subvert the jihadists to align themselves with the US against China.

OR The Gamesters in the Pentagon and CIA and Congress and WH and State are so completely fouled up and filled with manure that we are SCROOMED.


4 posted on 04/16/2011 12:26:52 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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Some of both.

The islamic terrorists will have an easier go of it now...as in Egypt where the Iranian Muslim Brotherhood is expanding.


5 posted on 04/16/2011 12:36:57 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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"OR The Gamesters in the Pentagon and CIA and Congress and WH and State are so completely fouled up and filled with manure that we are SCROOMED."
Bingo. Give the man a cigar.
6 posted on 04/16/2011 1:01:56 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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FBI Counter-Terror Official: Al Qaeda ‘Thrives’ After Dictators Fall

Why wouldn’t they thrive? We’re providing them air support in Libya.


7 posted on 04/16/2011 2:45:44 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: george76

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8 posted on 04/16/2011 10:43:07 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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