From The Captain's Quarters:We pointed out over a year ago that by early 2007, new al Qaeda recruits were heading for Pakistan rather than Iraq. This trend has been growing, and yet Yemen is also heavily in the mix.
The flow of foreign militants to Pakistan worries Western governments, which fear the south Asian country has replaced Iraq as the place to go for aspiring Islamists planning attacks on the West …
The goal today for these young men is to fight U.S. forces in neighbouring Afghanistan or to gain the skills to carry out attacks back home in the Middle East, Africa or the West.
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My Comment: A good summary on where Al Qaeda will be based in the future. I would also add the Western Sahara region.