Category: Al-Qeeda
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, February 03, 2014
Ron Paul on America's and the Continuing Al-Qaeda Threat / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Appearing last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that he could not say the threat from al-Qaeda is any less today than it was ten years ago. It was a shocking admission. Does he mean that the trillions of dollars spent fighting the war on terrorism have resulted in no gains? That those who urged us to give up some of our liberties to gain security have, as Benjamin Franklin warned, lost both?
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Terrorist Baloney - The Al-Qaeda Scam / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: LewRockwell
Eric Margolis writes: How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan that had no more than 200 active members in 2001 become a supposed worldwide threat?
How can al-Qaida be all over the Mideast, North Africa, and now much of black Africa? This after the US spent over $1 trillion trying to stamp out al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Oh No! Not Another Osama! This Time Created by France / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: LewRockwell
PARIS – The bloody attack on an Algerian gas installation and France’s invasion of Mali are the result of troubles that have been brewing for years – we simply have not been paying attention.
Jihadist guerilla leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, headlined as a new Great Islamic Satan by French media, has been making trouble in the Sahara for a long time, kidnapping westerners, robbing caravans, smuggling cigarettes.
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Friday, August 10, 2012
Reality Check - U.S. Supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria, Did the CIA Create Al-Qaeda? / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Videos
Ben Swann of Cincinnati's local Fox station goes where the MSM would neither dare nor understand. In this 'Reality Check' segment he takes a look at how the US government created Al Qaeda. Indeed, in today's Middle East turmoil it's fighting Al Qaeda in some countries while supporting them in others. Take note of Hillary's confirmation and explanation of how that all started.
Monday, May 09, 2011
Bin Laden Died Long Before U.S. Abbottabad Raid / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Trader_Mark
Press TV writes: Iran's intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago.
“We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time ago,” Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting on Sunday.
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Thursday, May 05, 2011
Bin Laden’s Daughter Confirms Osama Captured Alive Then Killed By U.S. Special Forces / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Submissions
By Al Arabiya’s correspondent in Islamabad : Senior Pakistani security officials said Osama bin Laden’s daughter had confirmed her father was captured alive and shot dead by the US Special Forces during the first few minutes of the operation carried out at the huge compound in Bilal Town, Abbottabad.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
What Is The Real Significance of Bin Laden's Death? / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: DK_Matai
We asked a select group of senior executives in regard to the significance of Osama bin Laden's death from their perspective. We also asked: What are the consequences of this development? The perspective of Nigel Churton, vice-chairman of Control Risks Group, based in London, UK, is worth noting. He wrote the following for the ATCA 5000:
Monday, May 02, 2011
Osama Bin Laden's Body Buried at Sea, Sounds Fishy / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Nadeem_Walayat
News continues to drip out of the White House and into the media-sphere on the purported details surrounding the assassination of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special forces, who had apparently been holed up for several years in a luxury mansion in the town of Abbottabad some 60 miles north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
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Sunday, May 01, 2011
Breaking News- President Obama to Announce Osama Bin Laden Killed by U.S. Bomb / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Multiple sources are reporting that President Obama is to shortly announce that the master mind behind the 2001 Sept 11th attacks, Osama Bin Laden is dead and that the US has possession of his body.
Initial reports are that the Al-Qeeda leader was killed by a possible U.S. drone attack deep inside Pakistani territory nearly a week ago whilst living in a mansion in the suburbs of the Pakistani Capital, Islamabad.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
CIA Libya Rebels are Al-Qaeda Fighters From Iraq / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Global_Research
Dr. Webster G. Tarpley writes: “Serpents, thirst, heat, and sand … Libya alone can present a multitude of woes that it would beseem men to fly from.” Lucan, Pharsalia
Washington DC, March 24, 2011 — The current military attack on Libya has been motivated by UN Security Council resolution 1973 with the need to protect civilians. Statements by President Obama, British Prime Minister Cameron, French President Sarkozy, and other leaders have stressed the humanitarian nature of the intervention, which is said to aim at preventing a massacre of pro-democracy forces and human rights advocates by the Qaddafi regime.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Al-Qaeda Unlucky Again in Cargo Plane Bombing Attempt / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: STRATFOR
The Oct. 29 discovery of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) inside two packages shipped from Yemen launched a widespread search for other devices, and more than two dozen suspect packages have been tracked down so far. Some have been trailed in dramatic fashion, as when two U.S. F-15 fighter aircraft escorted an Emirates Air passenger jet Oct. 29 as it approached and landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. To date, however, no other parcels have been found to contain explosive devices.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
The Path to 9-11, CIA Builds a Credible Enemy For America / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America's "War on Terrorism", Global Research, 2005
"The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings....The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..", (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
9/11, Al-Qeada and the 9-Year War / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: STRATFOR
It has now been nine years since al Qaeda attacked the United States. It has been nine years in which the primary focus of the United States has been on the Islamic world. In addition to a massive investment in homeland security, the United States has engaged in two multi-year, multi-divisional wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, inserted forces in other countries in smaller operations and conducted a global covert campaign against al Qaeda and other radical jihadist groups.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Airline Bomb Plots, Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth? / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Hasan Case Overt Clues and Tactical Security Challenges / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: STRATFOR
In last week’s global security and intelligence report, we discussed the recent call by the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-Wahayshi, for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets in the Muslim world and the West. We also noted how it is relatively simple to conduct such attacks against soft targets using improvised explosive devices, guns or even knives and clubs.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
China Al-Qaeda's Next Front? / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Pravda
Al-Qaeda posed a threat to China for the first time, promising to organize acts of terrorism against Chinese workers in Northern Africa in revenge for the death of Moslems-Uygurs, The Times wrote.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
U.S. Reaction to the CIA Assassination Program / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: STRATFOR
On June 23, 2009, Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta learned of a highly compartmentalized program to assassinate al Qaeda operatives that was launched by the CIA in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. When Panetta found out that the covert program had not been disclosed to Congress, he canceled it and then called an emergency meeting June 24 to brief congressional oversight committees on the program. Over the past week, many details of the program have been leaked to the press and the issue has received extensive media coverage.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Condoleezza Rice Could Go on Trial For her Role in Torture / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Pravda
Barack Obama’s recent initiative to expose the information about CIA’s secret torture chambers has come into effect already. As it turned out, the information is directly connected with a person from the previous US administration. It goes about Condoleezza Rice. As National Security Advisor in 2002, Rice gave her personal approval to water tortures.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Obama's Strategic Divergence: The Wars Against the Taliban and Al Qaeda / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: STRATFOR
Washington's attention is now zeroing in on Afghanistan. There is talk of doubling U.S. forces there, and preparations are being made for another supply line into Afghanistan — this one running through the former Soviet Union — as an alternative or a supplement to the current Pakistani route. To free up more resources for Afghanistan , the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq probably will be accelerated. And there is discussion about whether the Karzai government serves the purposes of the war in Afghanistan. In short, U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign promise to focus on Afghanistan seems to be taking shape.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Post 9/11 World Strategic Analysis / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: STRATFOR
One day after 9/11, U.S. President George W. Bush declared a global “war on terror.” Al Qaeda had first reared its head years before in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 U.S. Embassy attacks in East Africa and the 2000 USS Cole bombing, but it was not until the World Trade Center towers came crashing down that the global international security community became almost completely consumed with battling global jihadism. Professors of political Islam came out of the woodwork, Osama bin Laden became a household name, university students started pouring into Arabic language courses and, for the first time, terrorism became a national security priority. This era became known as the “post-9/11 world.” Read full article... Read full article...