Arab Spring… Al-Qaeda Sends Jihadists to Libya to Fill Power Vacuum

“Whomever speaks ill of this flag, we will cut out his tongue.”
Al-Qaeda planted its flag on the Benghazi Courthouse in October.

From the video: According to one Benghazi resident, Islamists driving brand-new SUVs and waving the black al Qaeda flag drive the city’s streets at night.

Now there are reports that Al-Qaeda is sending more members to Libya.

Al-Qaeda has sent top jihadists to Libya to fill the power vacuum left after the Gaddafi regime was removed from power by Barack Obama and NATO.
CNN reported, via Weasel Zippers:

Al Qaeda’s leadership has sent experienced jihadists to Libya in an effort to build a fighting force there, according to a Libyan source briefed by Western counter-terrorism officials.

The jihadists include one veteran fighter who had been detained in Britain on suspicion of terrorism. The source describes him as committed to al Qaeda’s global cause and to attacking U.S. interests.

The source told CNN that the al Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, personally dispatched the former British detainee to Libya earlier this year as the Gadhafi regime lost control of large swathes of the country.

The man arrived in Libya in May and has since begun recruiting fighters in the eastern region of the country, near the Egyptian border. He now has some 200 fighters mobilized, the source added. Western intelligence agencies are aware of his activities, according to the source.

Another al Qaeda operative, of dual European-Libyan nationality, was arrested in an unnamed country on his way to Libya from the Afghan-Pakistan border region.

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