“Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa clearly show just how dangerous the world is, and how great the challenges facing the intelligence community are going to be in the future as threats to U.S. national security continuously evolve. The U.S. intelligence community did not foresee the sudden collapse of the pro-U.S. regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, the eruption of a civil war in Libya, and the escalating wave of street protests across the Middle East. Then again, no one else in the U.S. government or among our allies abroad did either.” IntelligenceMiddle EastNational SecurityNorth Africa Book:Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror Source: Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror