由于局势动荡、政府软弱和意识形态等等原因，也门、利比亚、索马里和尼日利亚也在沦为恐怖主义滋生的沃土，它们在那些地方组织、训练、实施行动，就像在十年前的阿富汗一样。
A mixture of instability, government weakness, and ideology in countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and Nigeria are providing fertile territory for terrorists to organize, train, and mount operations – much as they did in Afghanistan did a decade ago.