Source: boston.com
From the article: "New investigations by the Saudi Arabian government and an Israeli think tank -- both of which painstakingly analyzed the backgrounds and motivations of hundreds of foreigners entering Iraq to fight the United States -- have found that the vast majority of these …
Source: newyorker.com
Lawrence Wright tells, for the first time, the story of the FBI agent who had the best chance of foiling the 9/11 plot. Here, with Amy Davidson, Wright talks about how turf wars with the CIA got in the way.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa was not always known by this name. It was formerly called Lashkar-e-Taiba - the Army of the Pure and Righteous - a hardline jihadi group with international connections, which Pakistan declared to be a terrorist organisation in 2002.
Source: The New York Times
Twice in the past few weeks, President Bush has been forced to negotiate with Congress over a subject that until recently he has insisted was nonnegotiable: his powers as commander in chief in prosecuting what he often calls “a new kind of war.”
Source: desitrain.com
And it’s done. The terrorist organization Al Qaeda, has unofficially or officially opened it “regional office” in Jammu & Kashmir, the northern most state of India.
Source: spectator.org
From the article: India, like the United States, has been at war with Islamist terrorists for years now. And as with the United States after 9/11, it has every right to hold nations responsible for harboring and abetting the terrorists who attacked it.
The death toll from the Mumbai train system bombing atrocity has risen to 200 with 700 wounded. Kashmir separatist non-state terrorism, Israeli state terrorism or US state terrorism are the most likely culprits, based on motive, opportunity and terrorism track record.
Source: townhall.com
What lapse of logic (or ancient prejudice) can explain the stubborn, utterly unshakable, and nearly universal insistence that Israel must pursue a “peace process” with its terrorist adversaries?
From the website of Sheffield Wednesday FC, the soccer team I follow in the UK:
"Graham Out Of US Tour
David Graham will miss the Owls' pre-season tour of America due to visa restrictions caused by a past minor police offence."
Source: counterterrorismblog.org
A recent international intelligence document says there are credible reports that a cadre of about 15 al Qaeda operatives in Sudan are providing training to troops under the control of Janjaweed leader Musa Hilal.
Source: cphpost.dk
Uh oh... I knew that Keld Bach was up to something...
I kid...
But something is quite rotten in Denmark!
Source: rawstory.com
One former intelligence field officer says, and two other CIA officials confirm, that the alleged plot by Muslim extremists to bomb the Holland Tunnel in New York City was nothing more than chatter by unaffiliated individuals with no financing or training in an open forum already …
Source: jp.dk
Assem Hammoud, a Lebanese man accused of masterminding a plot to destroy Hudson River train tunnels in New York, had been in contact with al-Qaeda recruiters in Denmark, according to US and Lebanese security sources.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
From the BBC:
The presence of British troops in Afghanistan has "energised" the Taleban, the defence secretary says.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
"With much of its leadership captured or killed, its financial networks disrupted, and the sanctuary offered by the Taliban government gone, al-Qaeda has been forced to adapt.
I've spent most of my life around members of the Intelligence community.
Source: foxnews.com
WASHINGTON — FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms smashed a possible Al Qaeda-linked terrorist plot to attack New York City's underground transportation system, law enforcement officials said Friday.
Source: mosnews.com
Last week, Putin ordered the secret services to hunt down and eliminate the killers, and offered a $10 million reward for information leading to their capture.
Source: atimes.com
Propaganda? Make-believe? Or the real deal? This fascinating article gives some details as to Osama bin Laden, his state of health and the complex politics of the regions where he reportedly operates. Good news - if true - is that his health is failing.
Source: frontpagemag.com
One of the pillars of the argument that there were “no links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda” is that the captured/defected members from both sides have denied any relationship existed.
Source: hindustantimes.com
A chilling video allegedly showing one of the London suicide bombers and backed up by a top Al Qaeda figure on Thursday threatened more attacks unless Britain pulled its troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: foxnews.com
"An Arab regime, possibly Iraq, supplied how-to manuals for Arab operatives working throughout Afghanistan before 9/11, and provided military assistance to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Source: Aljazeera.net
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the purported successor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is in an Egyptian prison and not Iraq, a lawyer has claimed.
Source: harpers.org
Ken Silverstein: Al Qaeda Central was and is capable of carrying out deadly actions, and at some point, it's safe to say, it will again try to attack the United States.
Source: thescotsman.scotsman.com
Hundreds of US marines yesterday stormed the largest hospital in western Iraq, taking control of a facility allegedly used by insurgents.
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