But without a central authority, Syria could descend into being a land of chaos and terrorist bases on Israel's northeast border.
A recent USA Today/Gallup poll found over 70% of Americans would support profiling passengers who fit the profile of terrorists based on their age, ethnicity or gender, subjecting them to special, more intensive security checks before boarding U.S. flights (USA Today, January 13 , 2010.
The second mission consists of "French air forces hitting the terrorist base" in the region of Gao and Timbuktu, to prevent the Islamic extremists from regrouping and resupplying.
Mr. Khodada's account has yet to be independently confirmed, but the existence of the terrorist base where he worked was confirmed by United Nations inspectors, who searched Iraq for secret defense and weapons facilities during much of the 1990's.
On Monday, the Syrian state news agency, SANA, said that the military was "continuing to clear the city of Daraya in the Damascus countryside" and that it had "destroyed a terrorist base and killed huge numbers of terrorists," without providing more detail.
"The United States intelligence agency is behind the Bali bombings in an attempt to justify their accusation that Indonesia is a terrorist base," said Abu Bakar Bashir, the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a radical Islamic group that many analysts say may itself have organized the attack.
U.S.-Afghanistan relations suffered severely because of a U.S. bombing attack in late August of an alleged terrorist base in Afghanistan operated by Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden.
The result has been chaos, tribal warfare, and new Islamist terrorist bases, including those of ISIS -- all fueled with the huge quantities of weapons in Gaddafi's stores.
Russia's top general, Yuri Baluyevsky, has also declared that his men "will carry out all measures to liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world".
