Author: Daniel L. Byman, Professor at Georgetown University and Research Director of the Saban Center at Brookings Institution
May/June 2011
Foreign Affairs
Although last winter's peaceful popular uprisings damaged the jihadist brand, they also gave terrorist groups greater operational freedom. To prevent those groups from seizing the opportunities now open to them, Washington should keep the pressure on al Qaeda and work closely with any newly installed regimes.
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