Ayman Zuwahiri Al Qaeda's Ayman Zuwahiri is preparing a string of terrorist attacks in the five weeks up to the presidential election as the sequel to the Sept. 11 Benghazi murders, says US intelligence. The Israeli Debka site asserted in a report that Zuwahiri seeks to influence the poll's results while building up his reputation as master of spectacular terrorist operations. The Benghazi attack exposed al Qaeda's striking expansion across a broad region - Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Mali and Egypt (Sinai). Most US personnel have been quietly lifted out. Of 20 endangered countries. Zuwahiri's planning for a new offensive takes advantage of the Arab Spring upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa, which let Islamic extremists off the leash, and turned them around to strike at the heart of the Obama administration's Middle East policy objectives. America is confronted with a broad new al Qaeda front with scanty intelligence and new regimes which can't be trusted or cooperation in fighting terror