PHOTO: Al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, released a new video message. ABC NewsFBI Counter-Terror Official: Al Qaeda 'Thrives' After Dictators Fall -- ABC News
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.
"The governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have drastically changed in the last six months," FBI Assistant Director of Counter-Terrorism Mark Giuliano said Thursday. "They are now led by transitional or interim governments, military regimes, or democratic alliances with no established track record on counterterrorism efforts. 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."
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My Comment: I can also make the counter argument that Al Qaeda thrives if dictators do not fall. But in regards to Yemen .... unfortunately .... Al Qaeda is going to be there (entrenched) for a very long time.
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