On the 12-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, terrorists have celebrated in Benghazi by detonating a car bomb in front of the Libyan Foreign Office.

Benghazi was central to the Libyan revolution that led to the ousting and murder of the longstanding dictator Col. Muammar Qadhafi. The now charred and defaced front of the Libyan Foreign Office is a testimony to the fact that the revolution has continued to lead the nation further down a course of bloody infighting, and has paved the way for radical Islamic terrorists to take over the nation.

There were no casualties in the attack, but the bombing was clearly about more than inflicting pain. An attack in downtown Benghazi, casualties or not, shows who is really in charge of the nation. It certainly isn’t the ineffective police force. The real powers in Libya are the terrorist militias. They are the ones with the guns, the manpower and the organization. When the militants can attack a government building in one of the nation’s major cities in open daylight, it shows the rapid state of social decline the nation is in.

But this wasn’t just a message to the ailing Libyan government.

The Libyan Foreign Office facilities once served a different purpose. Under the reign of King Idris, the building functioned as the U.S. Embassy. In 1969, the king was overthrown by Qadhafi and the U.S. Embassy was relocated. Is it just chance that the targeted building on September 11 was previously considered U.S. territory? The attack was clearly targeting some of the last remnants of U.S. influence in the city of Benghazi.

The U.S. Embassy today is in Tripoli, in Northwest Libya. While the nation’s capital city struggles with its own terrorism problems, it is not nearly as dilapidated as Benghazi. There, the U.S. and most Western influences have been driven out by militia groups that roam the streets. These terrorists are a law unto themselves. The U.S. operates out of Tripoli in an effort to build ties with the government and people, while the eastern side of the country is overrun by extremists.

After America helped bomb Qadhafi out of office, Washington celebrated the fact that not a single U.S. soldier had been killed. Since then, the consulate was set alight and the U.S. ambassador was murdered along with three U.S. servicemen, who died fighting the terrorists. This happened in Benghazi a year ago. Now, a year on, the city is in worse shape than ever, with extremists ruling the streets.

In situations of chaos, radical Islam takes the opportunity to move in. It happened in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood, and it’s happening in Syria with the opposition groups. It is happening today in Libya with the fall of Benghazi. So how much longer will it be before the militias come knocking at the door of the embassy in Tripoli?

The recent bombings, combined with the escalating violence across the nation, should be a warning sign to the U.S. and the world that Libya is far from the stable democracy that the West was hoping for. On top of that, people fail to realize that Libya is quickly fulfilling prophecies in Daniel 11:40-43, where it speaks of Libya aligning with a radical Islamic power that will play a major role in international relations in the coming months and years.

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