Libya: Al Qaeda's next target?

By Olivier Guitta

American authorities have warned Libya of a potential terror attack against major targets in the capital in the style of the 4/11 attacks in Algiers.
Security has been impressively heightened in Libya's major cities.
In fact Al Qaeda in The Islamic Maghreb struck Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco in the past few months, and Libya seems to be next.

For background The Croissant has this story:

The LIFG (the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group) was founded at the beginning of the 1990’s in Afghanistan by Libyan militants who had come to fight the Soviets and stayed there after the departure of the latter. Its existence was only officially announced in 1995. It is a known fact that it was one of the founding members of Al Qaeda along with:the Egyptian Jama Al Islamayah, the Yemeni Jihad, the Pakistani Al Hadith, the Lebanese Partisans’ League, the Jordanian Bait Al Imam:those called then the “Arab Afghans”.

According to French researcher Rodier, a large number of LIFG members then returned to Libya to overthrow the Khadafi regime and install an Islamic state.
Terrorist actions took place inside the country, including one attempt, foiled by the security services, to murder Khadafi himself.

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