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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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.
This is a good example of how our national interest is served by stability and endangered by chaos.
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.
Some of both.
The islamic terrorists will have an easier go of it now...as in Egypt where the Iranian Muslim Brotherhood is expanding.
FBI Counter-Terror Official: Al Qaeda ‘Thrives’ After Dictators Fall
Why wouldn’t they thrive? We’re providing them air support in Libya.
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