UK security chief: Arab Spring is new terror breeding-ground
MI5 Director Jonathan Evans said in a lecture that al Qaeda has taken advantage of regional instability in the wake of Arab revolutions to spread its influence and create new bases of attack. “Today parts of the Arab world [Libya, Egypt and Syria] have once more become a permissive environment for al-Qaeda…” In some cases they are absorbed into the ruling establishment. Some, after training and experience in their counties’ upheavals, will return to the UK and pose a threat there,” he said – and not just the UK. He pointed to three causes of the rising threat: 1) Extremists Article source: http://www.debka.com/newsupdate/1493/