(Wall Street Journal) Siobhan Gorman and Matt Bradley - Fighters linked to freed Egyptian militant Muhammad Jamal Abu Ahmad took part in the Sep. 11 attack on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Libya that killed four Americans. U.S. intelligence reports suggest that some of the attackers trained at camps he established in the Libyan Desert, a former U.S. official said. Western officials say Ahmad has petitioned the chief of al-Qaeda, to whom he has long ties, for permission to launch an al-Qaeda affiliate and has secured financing from al-Qaeda's Yemeni wing. "A lot of people were exuberant that the Arab uprisings in countries like Libya would lead to democracy...as well as stability," said Seth Jones, a counterterrorism specialist at the Rand Corp. But, he said, the resulting weak central governments are leaving room for terrorist leaders to operate.
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