Al Qaeda

Pakistani death squads go after informants to U.S. drone program

by News Sources 12.31.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: The death squad shows up in uniform: black masks and tunics with the name of the group, Khorasan Mujahedin, scrawled across the back in Urdu. Pulling up in caravans of Toyota Corolla hatchbacks, dozens of them seal off mud-hut villages near the Afghan border, and then scour markets and homes [...]

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Is Assad’s regime behind the Damascus suicide bombings?

by News Sources 12.23.2011

The anonymous Arab journalist who blogs at The Arab Digest examines those reasons that support the idea that the Assad regime is behind these bombings, versus those reasons suggesting Free Syrian Army or Islamist involvement. In his view, the regime itself is more suspect. One could say the regime is behind it for the following [...]

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America’s never-ending war

by News Sources 11.23.2011

Glenn Greenwald writes: Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought us 9/11″ — Al Qaeda — by rendering it “operationally ineffective.” Specifically, “the leadership ranks of the main al-Qaeda terrorist network have been reduced to just two figures whose [...]

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American teenager killed in drone strike

by Paul Woodward 10.16.2011

An American teenager gets blown up in a US drone strike and the only explanation provided for why he was killed is that his father was alleged to be a terrorist. And given the small amount of reporting on yesterday’s killings it appears that having covered the Obama-kills-an-American story last month, Obama-kills-another-American is a story [...]

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9/11: the tapping point

by News Sources 10.07.2011

David Rose writes: One morning in June 2001, three months before the 9/11 attacks on the United States, I happened to be interviewing a senior official from the British Secret Intelligence Service, M.I.6. His current focus was the war on drugs, not international terrorism, but he shared a piece of information that united the two [...]

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Arab world indifferent about death of unknown American cleric

by Paul Woodward 10.02.2011

But the headline says: “As the West Celebrates a Cleric’s Death, the Mideast Shrugs.” The New York Times, forever the trumpet of institutional power, apparently sees no need to draw a distinction between the White House and the West — even though most people in the West, like those in the Middle East, wouldn’t, until [...]

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Yemenis say they have bigger problems than al Qaeda

by News Sources 10.01.2011

The New York Times reports: On the streets of Sana, the nation’s conflict-stricken capital, the news of the death of Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-American propagandist for Al Qaeda who inspired jihadists around the world, was largely overshadowed by the continuing domestic turmoil here. Many Yemenis had not even heard that Mr. Awlaki had been killed, [...]

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How did Obama decide to execute Samir Khan?

by Paul Woodward 10.01.2011

The fact that President Obama decided to target the US citizen Anwar Awlaki for extra-judicial execution, is a subject of considerable controversy. What is arguably even more questionable is the killing of Awlaki’s American companion at the time of the Hellfire missile strike in Yemen yesterday: Samir Khan. Khan, who grew up in New York [...]

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Saleem Shahzad’s murder, al Qaeda, and the ISI

by News Sources 09.14.2011

Dexter Filkins writes: I met Saleem Shahzad nine days before he disappeared, and he seemed to know that his time was running out. It was May 20th, and Islamabad was full of conspiracy theories about the Abbottabad raid: bin Laden was still alive; Kiyani and Pasha had secretly helped the Americans with the raid. Mostly, [...]

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Bush ordered investigation to suppress Saudi 9/11 connection

by News Sources 09.13.2011

An interview with Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, authors of The Eleventh Day, The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden. Part Two: Part One: Share

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Listening Post – 9/11: When truth became a casualty of war

by News Sources 09.13.2011

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9/11 not an ‘intelligence failure’

by News Sources 09.13.2011

See the earlier report by Jason Leopold that this interview is based upon, Former Counterterrorism Czar Accuses Tenet, Other CIA Officials of Cover-Up. Share

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Evidence that al Qaeda killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Part Two of an interview with Gareth Porter: Part One: See also, Hariri Bombing Indictment Based on Flawed Premise and Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri, by Gareth Porter. For more background on the history of Lebanon, see the RealNews series parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten. Share

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The 9/11 Decade – The Clash of Civilizations?

by News Sources 09.11.2011

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9/11 documents claim intelligence on Bin Laden, targets withheld from Congress’ probe

by News Sources 09.08.2011

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Al Qaeda’s electronic jihad

by News Sources 09.05.2011

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Libyan rebel military chief says he was tortured by CIA

by News Sources 09.02.2011

Patrick Cockburn writes: The overthrow of Gaddafi has brought together strange allies, but few stranger than Abdulhakim Belhaj, the military commander of all rebel military forces in Tripoli, and Nato. An Islamist whom Gaddafi tried to have the US list as a terrorist, Mr Belhaj says he was tortured by CIA agents after being arrested [...]

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The context of the Eilat attacks and the threat to Gaza

by Paul Woodward 08.19.2011

Israelis who today for some reason feel safer because Gaza is getting bombed, might pause to consider this question: why would a member of the group that launched attacks outside Eilat yesterday — a group supposedly based in Gaza and sworn to the destruction of Israel — today blow himself up in an attack on [...]

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Al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula

by News Sources 08.19.2011

In a report for The Jamestown Foundation, Andrew McGregor writes: In the absence of police and government security forces, al-Qaeda-sympathetic movements, including al-Shabaab al-Islam (The Youth of Islam), have formed in the Sinai Peninsula. The demands of these Salafi-Jihadist groups reflect both local and regional concerns. Among their demands are calls for a full implementation [...]

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Iran, innuendo, and secret deals with al Qaeda

by Paul Woodward 07.29.2011

“U.S. accuses Iran of aiding al-Qaeda,” screams the headline in the Washington Post. The editors of the Wall Street Journal clearly take satisfaction with the Treasury Department’s announcement that it has exposed a “secret deal” between Iran and al Qaeda: The Obama Administration has come a long way since the days when it thought it [...]

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Anwar al-Awlaki: the next Bin Laden

by News Sources 07.13.2011

Patrick Symmes writes: It was the first drone attack in Yemen in a decade. On May 5, three days after Osama bin Laden was killed, a weaponized unmanned aircraft flew at 20,000 feet over the cracked and broken topography of Yemen. The target was a pickup truck carrying two men, one of them an American-born [...]

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The Kingdom and the Towers

by News Sources 07.13.2011

Anthony Summers and Robynn Swan write: For 10 years now, a major question about 9/11 has remained unresolved. It was, as 9/11-commission chairmen Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton recalled, “Had the hijackers received any support from foreign governments?” There was information that pointed to the answer, but the commissioners apparently deemed it too disquieting to [...]

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CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden’s family DNA

by News Sources 07.12.2011

The Guardian reports: The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader’s family, a Guardian investigation has found. As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, CIA agents [...]

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Panetta says defeat of Al Qaeda is ‘within reach’

by News Sources 07.10.2011

The New York Times reports: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, who arrived in Kabul on Saturday, said the United States was “within reach of strategically defeating Al Qaeda” and that the American focus had narrowed to capturing or killing 10 to 20 crucial leaders of the terrorist group in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Mr. Panetta, [...]

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