Terror and the War on Dissent: Freedom of Expression in the Age of Al-Qaeda
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA: "Saudis and Yemenis versus jihadists: A bloody border; Trouble on the frontier between Saudi Arabia and Yemen is getting out of hand," The Economist, 7 November 2009. Saudi Arabia's AQ branch announced earlier this year...
Big Lizards (Free subscription) | yesterday
The national-defense syllogism of President Barack H. Obama is pristine in its consistency: The war against the Iran/al-Qaeda axis is over! It ended on January 20th, 2009, when the One We Have Been Yearning For was finally inaugurated. It was just one more of those failed policies from the previous administration. The war criminal Bush brought it on himself when he enraged the world by launching an...
Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the Pakistani soldiers moved into South Waziristan, they found something almost as valuable as al Qaeda itself: the diaries and books that explain how militant ideology binds the diffuse world of terrorism together.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
A park near Toronto’s university district is named after the poet George Faludy. The author of My Happy Days In Hell passed away in 2006 at 96, having survived terrorists and tyrants in various parts of the world. When asked about the nature of totalitarian terror, Faludy used to tell the following anecdote. In the late 1940s, after the communist takeover of Eastern Europe, bitter bickering...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel and the U.S. PJM Earlier this month al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s dangerous Somalian proxy, threatened to attack Israel. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” an al-Shabaab commander named Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur...
BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
When it comes to terrorists, you would think that an al Qaeda operative who targets an American mom sitting in her office or a child on a flight back home is many degrees worse than a Taliban soldier picked up after a firefight with U.S. Army troops. Your instinct would be correct, because at the heart of terrorism is the monstrous idea that the former is as legitimate a target as the latter. Unfortunately,...
Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dude! anhan is the President’s village. Somalia, yes. But who owns that website? From the Long War Journal: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has opened a new training camp in the South. The new camp highlights Yemen’s value to al Qaeda in waging its global terror campaign. The camp is based in the Al [...]
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | yesterday
An al-Qaeda chief who switched sides, joining US forces to fight his former compatriots, has been sentenced to death for killing a young girl in a revenge attack, court officials said on Thursday. Telegraph | Nov 19, 2009 Adel Mashhadani headed the Sahwa (Awakening) militia of mostly Sunni former insurgents trained and financed by US and Iraqi [...]
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia ( AP ) — Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood shootings. The U.S.-born al-Awlaki...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
By Mustang Bobby . Steve Benen examines the foolish inconsistency of the right-wing outrage over the plans to put terrorists on trial in civilian courts. In 2002, the Bush Justice Department put Zacarias Moussaoui, an al Qaeda terrorist often referred to as the "20th 9/11 hijacker," on trial in a federal court near D.C. No one, at the time, said then-President Bush was putting American lives...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Fox News: A slim majority of Americans think five accused Sept. 11 plotters should be tried by a military tribunal rather than a civilian court -- and nearly half are concerned that their federal trial will "turn into a circus," a Fox News poll finds. ... The latest Fox News national poll finds 52 percent of Americans think the appropriate place to try the five detainees is in a military...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading Al Qaeda's message to Muslims in the West.
Cao's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is disgusting. ABC somehow got a hold of some documents regarding a black ops location in Lithuania, and under the Eric Holder template of “justice”, spread the news far and wide. It’s not bad enough that the ACLU has been chasing after CIA people in order to take their pictures. Or that [...]
Dave's World (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was Political Officer in Jidda in the late '70s in the US Embassy and was accustomed to receiving long missives from the US Amb to Yemen, Tom Scotes, who would dash off three half-dozen page analyses of the Yemeni political situation [which I also covered from a Pol/Mil slant] every week, or so it seemed. Finally, Amb Tom Pickering from Jordan arrived in Jidda with three black Chevy Suburbans armed...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Qaeda-linked jihadis based in US plotted overseas opsDEBKA-Net-Weekly ExlcusiveNovember 20, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)As America struggled with the legal niceties of terror, the FBI discovered a fully-functioning al Qaeda-linked terror cell in Chicago. Its ex-Pakistani Islamists were caught hatching plots against other countries like the one they masterminded in Mumbai exactly a year ago.More
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eprnetwork | 11/02/2009
The numbers of individuals entering inpatient drug rehab for heroin and opiate addiction continues to increase. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the opium (heroin) trade is tightly controlled by al Qaeda and the Taliban, and despite the war the efforts, the production of heroin and opium has dramatically increased - heroin is still dirt-cheap and readily purchased on the streets of Kabul and sold in short
tamilselvan1 | 09/12/2009
President Barack Obama vowed Friday to renew the battle against Al-Qaeda as he marked the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2001 amid rising public anxiety over the Afghan war.
petermark | 09/11/2009
On 9/11/2001, the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorist group Al-Qaeda upon the United States and the series of attacks like coordinate suicide. In the attcked, total 2,993 people, including the hijackers, died in the attacks. The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 90 countries.
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