Al Shabaab - cnn.com

Al Qaeda remains a significant and growing threat to global security.

Somali-based Al Shabaab's attack in Kampala, Uganda, following the World Cup final earlier this month is credited by terrorist experts as a play for official membership in the Al Qaeda franchise club.

Uganda was not a random target. Its peacekeepers protect the weak Somali government which Al Shabaab hopes to sack. 

AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb-Sahel) operates in Sub-Saharan Africa and poses a direct danger to western Europe. It likes to capture and kill relief workers trying to improve the lives of those trapped in the desolate region.

In Yemen, the UK ambassador and his convoy narrowly survived a suicide bomb attack last April credited to  Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

AQAP is expanding its reach and scale of operations. In fact it just released its first English-language Inspire magazine for entrepreneurial suicide bombers in order to connect with a worldwide recruitment pool.

Moreover, AQAP is directly tied to the so-called Christmas Day bomber in the United States last year.

While the main Al Qaeda organization is pressured in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, start ups and franchises proliferate where lawlessness prevails like in the Sahel, Somalia, and Yemen.

It is clear the West's efforts to control the tide of terror wrought by Islamic fascism is failing.

While the real war is inside Islam, the West is a convenient target both in the minds and in the deeds of militant Islamics as an expression of their fundamentalist rage against the modern world.

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Terror Inc. Inches Closer to Weaponized Nukes

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Iran's unimpeded march to obtain weaponized nuclear material and the long-range missiles to deliver such a payload continues to trouble GSM.

Today's English daily Tehran Times prints this headline front and center: Iran begins nuclear fusion studies (more: Yahoo video).


The military aim of Iran's nuclear program is undeniable as evidenced by this news.

Terror,Inc.'s boldness (shamelessness?) is a testament to the rogue regime's confidence no one dare forcefully oppose its nefarious plans.

While the West dithers as predicted in our Net Assessment, the onus of confronting Iran falls ever greater on Israel, the frequent target of vitriol from the Teheran Tyranny.

A thoughtful essay (''A Military Attack on Iran? Considerations for Israeli Decision Making'') by Ron Tira in the current edition of INSS' Strategic Assessment journal weighs the ramifications of such an action to disrupt if not destroy Terror,Inc.'s nuclear program.

Mr. Tira acknowledges Israel cannot alone halt Iran's advance, but that a military campaign would force the world to finally face the dire threat a nuclear Iran presents to global security:

Thus the main value of an attack does not lie in the direct physical damage to the nuclear program, rather in the political follow-on trends necessary to realize the strategic goal. (pg.50)

The ''political follow-on trends'' may be anticipated, but not controlled once the powder keg explodes.

What will US President Barak Obama do after playing pattycake with the Teheran Tyranny for over a year and a half now, if Israel pulls the trigger?

Condemnation from the usual suspects in the international community of any Israeli action is predictable.

Washington has a choice to make as well. Time is running out.

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23 Worst Dictators

Foreign Policy en español lists the 23 worst tyrants (los 23 peores tiranos). 

In an analysis of the locations of these dictators, Asia, Africa, and Latin America stand out.

Col. Gaddafi

In absence of Fidel Castro from the list (brother Raul is), the most senior member of the club is
Muamar Gaddafi of Libya (41 years) described as a ''egoísta excéntrico'' (eccentric egoist).

The most junior is Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan at 4 years, again, casting Raul Castro aside. The ''oscuro dentista'' (obscure dentist) continues the repressive policies of his predecessor.


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Daring French Raid in Northern Mali

Northern Mali is the suspected headquarters for Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).

On Thursday, France presumably tried to rescue hostage Michel Germaneau in the region after a death threat by his captors, according to press reports. Its success is unknown.

A host of west European countries including Spain, France, Austria, and even Switzerland have had hostages taken in the Sahel by AQIM. Its tentacles reach deep into these countries.

Spain is actually more in the sights of AQIM than France, according to J. Peter Pham in World Defense Review.

Jihadist expert María Amparo Tortosa Garrigós explains in Madrid's El País in an interview last December that AQIM is creating an ''Afghanistan in the Sahel,'' a dagger aimed right at the EU.

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