Recent attacks by al-Shabab in Uganda and the court hearing of an American charged with trying to join the jihad in Somalia are bad signs that a new transnational terrorist network is taking shape in East Africa, and President Obama has made the problem worse by ordering the killing of the man who could have helped disrupt and destroy the network.

Guantanamo Bay has still not shut down, and recently CIA director Panetta stated that if a top al-Qaeda leader was captured, they would probably be detained there.