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10 Jan 2022, 12:06 pm
Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan six months after 9/11 and was accused of being a senior figure in al-Qaeda. [read post]
10 Jan 2022, 5:01 am
The U.N. counterterrorism sanctions list is also directed at a host of individuals and entities associated with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. [read post]
9 Jan 2022, 7:01 am
In fact, we find ourselves back where we started: with the Taliban in charge in Afghanistan and again providing safe haven to their longstanding al-Qaeda allies. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 7:52 am
Pix Credit: Adam Klasfeld, "Derek Chauvin and Three Other Ex-Officers Plead Not Guilty to Civil Rights Charges in George Floyd's Death," Law & Crime (14 Sept 2021) Eyo Olokun masquerades at the Eyo Festival in Lagos, Nigeria For the last several years, and with no particular purpose other than a desire to meander through reflection, I have taken the period between Christmas and New Years Eve to produce a s summary of the slice of the year to which I paid attention… [read post]
24 Dec 2021, 10:24 am
In a chillingly ugly little book called Fixed Ideas (2003), Didion mocked the idea that firemen can be heroes and that the Al-Qaeda terrorists hated America for its freedom. [read post]
21 Dec 2021, 11:50 am
ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which David Priess and Aki Peritz talk about an al-Qaeda plot to destroy a passenger plane over the Atlantic ocean in 20016and the heroic efforts by the intelligence services of the United States, Great Britain and even Pakistan to uncover and crush it. [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 2:01 am
In 2006, al-Qaeda-trained operatives planned and nearly executed an operation to destroy passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean. [read post]
12 Dec 2021, 7:01 am
In 2012, for example, the Combating Terrorism Center observed more discussions taking place on jihadist forums that explored how groups like al-Qaeda could counter the United States’ use of armed drones through countersurveillance tools, tradecraft and other approaches. [read post]
10 Dec 2021, 12:46 pm
McKenzie said that al-Qaeda has grown in Afghanistan since U.S. forces left in late August, and the country’s Taliban commanders are split on whether to follow through on their commitments to terminate relations with al-Qaeda by 2020. [read post]
9 Dec 2021, 1:49 pm
Muhtorov, a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and political refugee from Uzbekistan, was convicted for providing material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a foreign terrorist organization with ties to al-Qaeda. [read post]
6 Dec 2021, 2:33 pm
.: The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on National Security will hold a hearing examining the worldwide threat of al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other foreign terrorist organizations. [read post]
5 Dec 2021, 7:01 am
Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State were clearly different in key ways from each other, and from terrorists past. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 2:55 am
Pappas et al. find that counterfeit cigarettes can have as much as seven times the lead of authentic brands, and close to three times as much thallium, a toxic heavy metal.[14] Other sources report finding insect eggs, dead flies, mold, and human feces in counterfeit cigarettes.[15] During prohibition of alcohol in the United States during the 1920s, increased enforcement did not manage to significantly decrease the prevalence of bootlegging because the profit margins were so large,… [read post]
26 Nov 2021, 10:25 am
Allegedly a member of Ansar Eddine, a UNSC-sanctioned militant outfit associated with al Qaeda, Al Mahdi was the head of the “Hisbah” (a body set up to uphold public morals and prevent vice) and associated with the Islamic Court in Timbuktu. [read post]
21 Nov 2021, 7:01 am
The Taliban show no signs of severing ties with al-Qaeda. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 4:14 am
We were told there would be fallout from Afghanistan and to watch for Al-Qaeda operatives while on this humanitarian mission, but I haven’t seen anything that calls for alarm. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 11:02 am
Els Woodke said she believes her husband, Jeff Woodke, is in the custody of an al-Qaeda affiliate known as Jamaa Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and that she received information that her husband was alive. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 7:09 am
Second was the rise of al-Qaeda and the attack of Sept. 11, 2001. [read post]
15 Nov 2021, 6:17 am
Noncompliance could result from failing to submit necessary ongoing compliance documentation; ineffectively vetting clients or other counterparties; or knowingly facilitating transactions on behalf of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State in Khorasan province (IS-K) or other identified entities. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 2:01 am
They talked about what Majid Khan did, his history in al-Qaeda after a childhood in Baltimore, what was done to him, and whether with all this water under the bridge, something like justice could ever come from a trial. [read post]
