{"id":33150,"date":"2012-12-08T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33150"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T15:08:02","slug":"unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33150","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like there might well be some additional fallout from our support for those &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; uprisings.\u00a0 As in a resurgence of al Qaeda in North Africa &#8211; complete with the establishment of safe havens and training grounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/12\/07\/al-qaeda-expansion-in-libya-part-long-term-vision\/\">As reported here<\/a>,\u00a0 it appears that al Qaeda is making deliberate attempts to set up shop in Libya.\u00a0 It also appears they&#8217;re well along the way to succeeding.<\/p>\n<p>The article lists 3 factors that, taken together, show strong evidence of an overall plan by al Qaeda to set up shop in Libya.\u00a0 Those factors are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the dispatch of two leaders (Abu Anas al Libi and Abd al Baset Azzouz) who report to al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan;<\/li>\n<li>the presence of affilaited groups, in particular al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM); and<\/li>\n<li>close support by sympathetic local militias, in particular those led by ex-Guantanamo inmate Abu Sufian Ben Qumu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The article goes on to provide evidence indicating al Qaeda is likely moving to set up safe haven and training areas in southern Libya.<\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;ve seen this movie before &#8211; a bit over a decade ago.\u00a0 As well as around 20 years before that.\u00a0 And it sucked the first two times around.<\/p>\n<p>The thesis gets support from the USAFRICOM commander, GEN Carter Ham.\u00a0 GEN Ham has indicated his concern over &#8220;a growing linkage, growing network and collaboration and synchronization amongst various extremist organizations which I think pose the greatest threat to regional stability more broadly across Africa, certainly into Europe, United States as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gee, the Arab Spring being organized or (more likely) exploited by al Qaeda for their own benefit.\u00a0 Yeah, I know &#8211; that&#8217;s so obvious Stevie Wonder could have seen it coming.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to ask the current Administration why <em>they<\/em> didn&#8217;t, and chose to provide support to the Arab Spring uprisings anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like there might well be some additional fallout from our support for those &hellip; <a title=\"Unintended Consequences\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33150\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unintended Consequences<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}