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Flaming Libs/Koranimals
Arab Winter is here
9/14/12
Author: pioneer
Attack on US consulates signals rise of Islamists
As it becomes increasingly evident that the vicious attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi that killed the American Ambassador to Libya was indeed an act of terror, the writing on the wall is clear: The Arab Spring has given way to a cold and dark Islamist winter that threatens to envelop countries which are in a state of transition following pro-democracy movements.
Those still in doubt should look to the violent protests in Yemen and Egypt that have happened simultaneously to understand the larger picture. Of course, apologists will point to the tacky video that some found defamatory to the Prophet as the reason behind the attack. But that was just a trigger for an angry mob which went on a violent rampage. By no means was it a spontaneous outburst. Spontaneity may have have been there to some degree in Cairo, where hours before the Benghazi attack, protesters demonstrating outside the US Consulate against the same video breached the security cordon. But in Benghazi it was almost certainly a carefully planned, pre-meditated assault that was carried out by Islamists armed with rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft weapons. That the attack happened on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks is, quite possibly, no coincidence. Additionally, it is also hard to ignore the fact that only hours before the attack, Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri had issued a call to avenge the death of his Libyan-born colleague Abu Yahya al-Libi, in a US drone attack early this year.
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Hopefully, the tragic death of Ambassador J Christopher Stevens at the hands of Islamist militants in the city that he once helped save' from the excesses of a brutal dictatorship, will guide the West into the real world.
Arab Winter is here
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