Al Qaeda Is Back By: Bruce Riedel

Al Qaeda Is Back

By: Bruce Riedel

Two spectacular al Qaeda prison breaks in Iraq, freeing over 500 of its members in two separate prisons simultaneously this week, demonstrate the group is back with a vengeance. Al Qaeda’s Iraq branch is also the moving force behind the jihadist success in Syria. The resurgence of al Qaeda in Iraq has sobering implications for what is likely to follow the drawdown of NATO forces in Afghanistan for the al Qaeda mother ship in Pakistan.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/07/26-al-qaeda-riedel