Africa: Different Paths to Success and Failure
By Douglas Farah
The designation of two South Africans for suspected ties to al Qaeda is the latest public evidence of the radical Islamist pipeline that runs through the heart of sub-Saharan Africa.
The U.S. military and part of the Intelligence Community are slowly focusing on the spreading threat there. As my friend Victor Comras noted on the Counterterrorism Blog, obtaining this designation package has been a long and arduous process, with little support from South Africa or the United Nations. Here is another interesting article on the Imam involved.
But what is just as interesting as the stories of possible Islamist penetrations are those of the Islamists' possible failures. The Project for the Research of Islamist Movements portrays al Qaeda's efforts to mobilize _jihadist_ fighters to Darfur as long on effort and short on results, despite the obvious interest of Osama bin Laden and other core al Qaeda leaders to raising up an Islamist force to fight there. My full blog is here..
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