A source tells CNN that al Qaeda 's leadership is mobilizing forces in eastern Libya . Source : Al Qaeda leader Omar al - Zawahiri personally dispatched one jihadist to Libya . The man has been successful , and now has some 200 fighters mobilized , the source says . Source : Al Qaeda documents discovered in Iraq in 2006 showed that many of the fighters who had joined the insurgency had come from eastern Libya . The government is committed to al Qaeda 's global cause and to protecting U.S. interests .
A source tells CNN that al Qaeda 's leadership is mobilizing forces in eastern Libya . Source : Al Qaeda leader Omar al - Zawahiri personally dispatched one jihadist to Libya . The man has been successful , and now has some 200 fighters mobilized , the source says . Source : The government is committed to al Qaeda 's global cause and to protecting U.S. interests .