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26 Sep 2023, 5:55 am
” Rebecca Ingber explained the term in her Just Security article Legally Sliding into War: [“Associated forces” is] a term the executive branch crafted to identify groups that are connected to al Qaeda and meet relatively loose criteria. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 6:05 am
As of 2017, the executive branch stated: The 2001 AUMF provides statutory authority for ongoing U.S. military operations against the following individuals and groups: al-Qa’ida; the Taliban; certain other terrorist or insurgent groups affiliated with al-Qa’ida or the Taliban in Afghanistan; al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula; al-Shabaab; individuals in Libya who are part of al-Qa’ida; al-Qa’ida in Syria; and… [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 5:55 am
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates gave militias linked to al-Qaeda U.S. weapons to curry favor. [read post]
18 Sep 2023, 6:05 am
For example, in reporting U.S. operations in Afghanistan during the first half of 2020 (prior to the U.S. withdrawal), the report states: (U) The following are the organizations in Afghanistan during this reporting period against which the U.S. military used force pursuant to the 2001 AUMF: (1) al-Qa’ida; (2) the Taliban, (3) the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); and (4) certain other terrorist or insurgent groups affiliated with al-Qaida or the Taliban in… [read post]
18 Sep 2023, 5:55 am
(Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of our Ending Perpetual War Symposium. [read post]
11 Sep 2023, 1:36 pm
On September 11, 2001, 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes, resulting in two planes crashing into the Twin Towers,... [read post]
11 Sep 2023, 5:52 am
Al-Qaeda and ISIS have, in most part, been defeated even while lower level threats from splinter groups persist. [read post]
11 Sep 2023, 5:51 am
And the goal of defeating al-Qaeda on the battlefield mostly has been achieved, at least with respect to al-Qaeda Core. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 6:40 am
I fully share the concerns of so many family members that Saudi support for al-Qaeda in general or specific involvement in the 9/11 attacks, whether by individual Saudi citizens, by Saudi organizations, or by members of the Saudi government is an issue about which we deserve the facts. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 5:52 am
As communities of color and civil rights advocates have repeatedly pointed out, profiling rules that allow law enforcement to define politically loaded terms such as “threat” without safeguards have long contributed to an environment in which certain groups of people–including Muslim-Americans (as potential members of al -Qaeda or ISIS), Black activists (as potential “Black Identity Extremists”), and Asian-Americans (as potential spies for the Chinese… [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 6:34 am
An intelligence alert obtained by Judicial Watch warned that “Al-Qaeda says upcoming attacks on US, possibly involving planes, will use new techniques and tactics. [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 6:34 am
An intelligence alert obtained by Judicial Watch warned that “Al-Qaeda says upcoming attacks on US, possibly involving planes, will use new techniques and tactics. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 7:01 am
Domestic practice (e.g., of the UK, the Netherlands, and the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to Al Qaeda and the Tamil Tigers) exposes the same approach: even where CTL and IHL interrelation is not expressly reconciled, CTL was seemingly only invoked for prosecutions in NIACs given the irrelevance of the combatant’s immunity issues (Saul (2020) 417-419). [read post]
18 Aug 2023, 2:49 am
“The decision to raise the level is not prompted by a single event but we know that Hezbollah, al Shabaab and al Qaeda have called on their supporters to carry out acts against Sweden,” Charlotte von Essen, head of Sweden’s SAPO security service said. [read post]
15 Aug 2023, 7:55 am
And despite recent dismissive remarks by President Joe Biden defending the 2021 withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan by saying his prediction that al-Qaeda “would not be there” had come true, news media reports and other credible accounts from the ground, demonstrate otherwise. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 5:49 am
It was through such legal innovations that, for example, the Obama administration deemed the 2001 AUMF to apply to al-Shabaab as an associated force of al-Qaeda, even though al-Shabaab did not exist at the time of the 9/11 attacks. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 6:05 am
JNIM, a Salafi Jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda, has made significant inroads among Fulani communities and other rural populations since 2017, and has expanded from Mali to Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, and Benin. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 7:41 am
They reflect, as well, that the redactions to the materials in this case were made judiciously, not excessively, and based on a sophisticated and informed understanding of the ongoing national security threats posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates. [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 6:05 am
For ten months in 2012-13, the Malian city of Timbuktu was under the control of two armed groups, Ansar Dine and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM), which imposed their extremist interpretation of Sharia law on the population. [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 5:44 am
As recently as May 2023, the DoD walked back claims that it killed a senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria as evidence emerged that the victim was instead a civilian shepard and father. [read post]
