[MestaMachine]

Crosslinked to TM.
These are exceptionally good articles on this thread and the links on the articles are well worth taking the time to read.
Thank you very much, CW, for posting these. People do SO need to understand what we are facing and how this administration has endangered the whole world right under our noses.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Alive and Deadly - The workings of al Qaeda's expanding franchise ".......Benghazi has been a key jihadist recruiting ground going back even before the American military presence in Afghanistan beginning October 2001. As the center of Cyrenican (eastern province of Libya) resistance against Gaddafi's central government, local insurgent groups eventually formed into varying-sized militias with clan ties. Before that, however, the legends of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda had encouraged the growth of a development pool of Afghanistan-bound young men. This movement later evolved into several anti-Gaddafi underground nets. One of these assumed the name Ansar al Shariah, which had surfaced originally in Yemen as part of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)........"