Al Qaeda’s wanna-be Arab Spring

Published April 20, 2011 4:00am ET



Will the uprising in Libya turn the country into the terrorist Disneyland? Let’s consider some musings from think tanks in the U.S. and Europe.

In an article for The Jamestown Foundation, journalist Camille Tawil concluded that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a group affiliated with Osama bin Laden, has “failed in its attempts to expand its theater of operations to the rest of the Arab countries that make up the Maghreb, a region that consists of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania.”

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