A source tells CNN that al Qaeda 's leadership is mobilizing forces in eastern Libya . The group has been fighting for control of the country's oil fields and other strategic assets since last year. Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri personally dispatched one jihadist to Libya . The man has been recruiting , and now has some 200 fighters mobilized , the source says . Die Hard , ' who stubbornly refused to die quietly . Source : The man is committed to al Qaeda 's global cause and to attacking U.S. interests .
A source tells CNN that al Qaeda 's leadership is mobilizing forces in eastern Libya . The group has been fighting for control of the country's oil fields and other strategic assets since last year. Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri personally dispatched one jihadist to Libya . The man has been recruiting , and now has some 200 fighters mobilized , the source says . Source : The man is committed to al Qaeda 's global cause and to attacking U.S. interests .