Tenet Warns of Al Qaeda Threat (washingtonpost.com)

Tenet Warns of Al Qaeda Threat (washingtonpost.com)

These data shared with Congress by our security officials are cause for grave concern. The Islamic world is burgeoning with uneducated, economically destitute people poorly served by corrupt and backward governments and inflamed by radical Islam in the Mosque. We have a crisis coming.

"A number of factors virtually assure a terrorist threat for years to come," Jacoby said. "Despite recent reforms, terrorist organizations draw from societies with poor or failing economies, ineffective governments and inadequate education systems."

"Demographic bubbles" of young people "further burden governments and economies," he said, mentioning a number of countries where a high proportion of the population is under 15: Saudi Arabia, with 43 percent; Iraq, 41 percent; Pakistan, 39 percent; Egypt, 34 percent; Algeria, 33 percent; and Iran, 29 percent.