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American intelligence officers have been so focused on tracking individual terrorists in failing states since 9/11 that they failed to predict the popular uprisings that have all but swept away decades of contacts and cooperation. According to Newsweek, the changes that have accompanied the Arab Spring in the Middle East and across North Africa. have been an unwelcome surprise to US intelligence agents who have lost not only local allies, but unrestricted access.