On September 11, 2012, Al Qaeda completed an attack on the U.S. consulate and the CIA annex in Benghazi. According to a seasoned counterterrorism investigator. Tom Joscelyn, a senior fellow for Foundation of Defense of Democracies told Fox News, Al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been watching Libya for a while, it was always part of his plan to send senior operatives from Pakistan and elsewhere into Libya to grow their Al Qaeda's clandestine network. After the attack in Benghazi, terrorist networks are now able to "capitalize on the anti-American momentum and to show how they do have cards to play around the world." Al Qaeda's senior leadership in Pakistan and their affiliates in North Africa are now on the move into Southwestern Libya to begin training and planning attacks against the west. The Libyan town of Ghat near the Niger border is also a well-known transiting point for weapons. General carter Ham, top commander for US forces stated to George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute stated that the growth of Islamist movements now appears to be a bit unstable stretching from Mali and Nigeria to Somalia and Yemen in the East. The ability for terrorists to link up and grow to become bigger terrorist organizations, is pretty dangerous for the surrounding nations influenced by the west. In about a week, the State Department is expected to designate a new terrorist group named Jabhat al-Nusra. They're viewed as an outgrowth of the Al Qaeda in Iraq, also most of their leaders have honed their skills against U.S. and coalition forces. Syrian rebels have adopted Al Qaeda's ideology making it hard for the U.S. to spot the enemy.
Syria's army are slowly becoming a threat. Military commanders in Syria have agreed to a unified command structure. The agreement meeting was a marked departure from previous attempts because it was built strictly around commanders from inside Syria, the product of three days of intensive talks among more than 260...