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Jihadist Opportunities in Libya
As George Friedman noted in his geopolitical weekly “Revolution and the
Muslim World,” one aspect of the recent wave of revolutions we have been
carefully monitoring is the involvement of militant Islamists, and
their reaction to these events.
Militant Islamists, and specifically the subset of militant Islamists we
refer to as jihadists, have long sought to overthrow regimes in the
Muslim world. With the sole exception of Afghanistan, they have failed,
and even the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan was really more a matter
of establishing a polity amid a power vacuum than the true overthrow of
a coherent regime. The brief rule of the Supreme Islamic Courts Council
in Somalia also occurred amid a similarly chaotic environment and a
vacuum of authority. Read more »
