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rediff News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Giving a new dimension to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba plot to attack Indian facilities, Federal Bureau of Investigation's sleuths have recovered two inflammatory Al Qaeda videos, containing speeches by Osama bin Laden and other terrorists, from the house of Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was arrested in October. Produced by 'As Sahab Media', commonly acknowledged to be the media wing of...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.
Saber Point (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Or so many seem to think. Denial is the way to edit reality. If we all agree that something unpleasant isn't true, then by God, it isn't. If we all agree that Nadal Malik Hasan's religion had nothing to do with 13 dead and 30 wounded at Fort Hood, then by gum it didn't. For those who say that Islam is inherently violent and seditious, we can just put our hands over our ears and say "LA LA LA LA...
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
David W. Glazier (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) has posted Playing by the Rules: Combating Al Qaeda within the Law of War (William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 51, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although the so-called "war...
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan is among Al-Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years fighting terrorism.
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By GottaLaff If President Obama had said this... well, don't ask: Gawker has an interesting video of RNC new media director Todd Herman pointing out that Fortune 500 companies -- and presumably political parties -- can learn a lot from the Internet communication strategies of Al Qaeda. The video was shot when Herman still worked for Microsoft.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In a video that recently surfaced, the Republican National Committee's director of new media said that Al Qaeda has the right idea for using the internet to achieve success. "Part of media is video," Todd Herman said in an interview done while working for Microsoft. "Moving pictures and that way of telling stories has proven [...]
American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
BY James Gordon Meek DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Thursday, October 29th 2009, 8:10 PM WINFRIED ROTHERMEL/AP Said Bahaji believed to be a member of the Hamburg, Germany, based cell that included some of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A branch of Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the killings of three security officials and several guards in the eastern Yemeni province of Hadramawt.
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Washington Post: When terrorists last week blew up the Mina Bazaar, a market for women and children, they detonated a car bomb so powerful it left more than 100 people dead and 15 missing in a nightmarish scene of scattered limbs, charred corpses and victims trapped alive under mounds of debris. The bombing crossed a new line of callousness, uniting Peshawar in grief and fear and unleashing a tide...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
ARTICLE: Clinton Challenges Pakistanis on Al Qaeda, By MARK LANDLER, New York Times, October 29, 2009 Clinton's none-too-subtle subtext? We will hold you responsible for the next 9/11. There is a new sort of deterrence to be found in such...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Eurabia Alert, and an update on this story. "Italy: Al-Qaeda allies 'may carry out attacks'," from AdnKronos International, November 7: Rome, 6 Nov. (AKI) - Italy was susceptible to terror attacks by allies of the Al-Qaeda network, the interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Friday. Maroni warned there were terror...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
ARTICLE: New threat to travellers from al-Qaeda 'keister bomb', By Charles Bremner and Marie Tourres, Times Online, October 6, 2009 My old briefing joke finally migrating toward reality. My original enunciation was quite serious, based on drug mules. It just...
Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three names have been doing the rounds in India these days: Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri, David Coleman Headley (a.k.a Dauod Geelani) and Tahawur Hussein Rana, one hard core, veteran Jehadi and two motivated ‘would be’ terrorists. They are in the news for plotting major assaults in India. Among them, Ilyas Kashmiri who was rumored to be dead early this year, in fact survived three drone attacks...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
Look, we know most of the alleged Al Qaeda detainees are innocent , with far too many of them victims of horrifying tactics like the ones reported in this Raw Story article . Will there ever be justice for them, or will President Obama continue to turn a blind eye to the Bush torture policies? Because with recent reports of a known rendition plane in Birmingham, England, I have to wonder if those...
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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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