Al-Qaeda Affiliate In North Africa Said To Have Sights On Other Western Targets -- Washington Post
New intelligence on al-Qaeda’s affiliate in North Africa indicates that the militant group is seeking to carry out attacks on other Western targets in the region after its deadly assault on a natural gas complex in Algeria, senior U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday.
The push to mount follow-on strikes is seen as evidence that al-Qaeda was emboldened by the Jan. 16 raid and subsequent battle with Algerian security services that killed dozens of hostages and militants.
A senior U.S. intelligence official said that new streams of information have surfaced in the weeks since the assault and that “what we have seen is intelligence suggesting a desire to carry out more attacks.”
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My Comment: The desire to carry out more terror attacks is probably there, but in their attack on the Algerian gas complex a number of these terrorists were killed .... and the Algerian government showed no interest to negotiate. So any future attack in Algeria or in any other North African state will probably be a suicide attack .... and to find 20 or 30 men willing to do that is going to be an obstacle.
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