The Global Terrorist Threat Is Diversifying

New Terror Threats in 2012 -- Project Syndicate

The global terrorist threat is diversifying. Ten years after its iconic attacks on U.S. landmarks, al-Qaeda no longer occupies the center stage in global security. Relentless U.S. targeting led to the massive degradation of al-Qaeda, the core of the global terrorist movement. This included the killing of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda’s founder and leader, in Abbotabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011. The epicenter of the network suffered another blow when Attiyah Abd-al-Rahman (alias Attiyah Allah), the deputy to Bin Laden’s successor, Ayman al Zawahiri, was killed in a CIA drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan on August 22, 2011. Nonetheless, al-Qaeda’s ideology and its clones in Asia, the Caucuses, Africa and the Middle East still present a real threat to societies and governments worldwide.

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My Comment: A sobering assessment. Read it all.