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11 Dec 2006, 3:35 pm
Silvestre Reyes of Texas: When asked by CQ National Security Editor Jeff Stein whether al Qaeda is one or the other of the two major branches of Islam -- Sunni or Shiite -- Reyes answered "they are probably both," then ventured "Predominantly -- probably Shiite. [read post]
8 May 2012, 6:37 pm
CIA UNRAVELED BOMB PLOT FROM WITHIN: “The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including a double agent — working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said U.S. and Middle Eastern officials. [read post]
2 May 2011, 10:18 am
But in the longer term Bin Laden’s death is likely to severely harm Al-Qaeda. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 1:44 pm
The State Department unveiled Wednesday that it is widely employing social media as a method to counter online violent extremism from Al-Qaeda and others. [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 11:50 am
"U.S. appeals court upholds al Qaeda publicist's conviction": Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report. [read post]
1 May 2007, 3:15 pm
We should be fighting Al Qaeda, but NOT Al Qaeda in Iraq. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 7:32 am
One concerns the difficulty of defining the institutional boundaries of “al Qaeda,” including the question of how close another entity or network must be to “core” al Qaeda in order to be treated as coextensive or part-and-parcel of al Qaeda (let’s call this the “what counts as al Qaeda” question). [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 3:48 pm
Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, joins me in hour three to discuss al Qaeda a decade after its devastating assault on America. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 8:08 am
" Al Qaeda used to posture as heroic resistance against the West. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 9:44 am
"Abu Omar al-Baghdadi is Al Qaeda's guy in Iraq, and nowadays, the Sunni insurgency is being whittled down to Al Qaeda's activity in Iraq. [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 2:17 am
Why have blogs so far failed to change the minds of Al Qaeda sympathizers? [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 7:02 am
Mohammed admitted earlier this week to meetings with al Qaeda and acting as a weapons instructor and manager at the Khaden military camp in Afghanistan, where hijackers and other members of al Qaeda trained prior... [read post]
30 Jun 2007, 5:33 am
THIS SEEMS LIKE GOOD NEWS: "Sunni militias that once fought U.S. troops are now seeking to join them, frustrated by al Qaeda's influence in parts of Baghdad, a U.S. commander said on Friday. . . . 'They are tired of al Qaeda and the influence of al Qaeda in their tribes and in their neighborhoods and they want them cleaned out and they want to form an alliance in order to rid themselves of this blight.'" Let's… [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 6:58 am
It’s useful to read for many reasons, including to better appreciate the difficulty of demarcating the boundaries of networks such as al Qaeda and what it might mean to say that another such entity is an associated force of al Qaeda. [read post]
28 Mar 2006, 7:11 pm
[JURIST] Court-appointed lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news archive] rested the case of their headstrong and sometimes fractious client in federal court Tuesday by reading recorded statements from five al Qaeda leaders to show that contrary to Moussaoui's own testimony [JURIST report], he was not in fact slated to participate in the Sept. 11 attacks [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
8 May 2012, 9:42 am
BOMB EXPERTS are trying to figure out if Al Qaeda’s upgraded and recently seized underwear bomb would have slipped through security if it had gotten that far. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 11:17 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Tuesday entered a not guilty plea and ordered a psychiatric evaluation in the trial of Aafia Siddiqui [FBI materials], a Pakistani woman with alleged ties to al Qaeda. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 12:00 pm
[JURIST] Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] military prison detainee Abu Zubaydah [BBC profile] denied accusations of al-Qaeda involvement and made allegations of torture, according to a transcript [PDF] released Monday of his March 27 testimony before a US Combatant Status Review Tribunal [DOD materials]. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 7:40 am
[JURIST] US citizen and al Qaeda member Christopher Paul was sentenced [DOJ press release] to 20 years in prison Thursday for conspiring to conduct a terrorist bombing campaign against targets in the US and Europe. [read post]
23 Sep 2005, 12:01 pm
[JURIST] A British Muslim man was found guilty in London Friday for "possessing articles useful for terrorists" including a hand-written instruction manual explaining how to fire mortars and secret codes that British police linked to al Qaeda. [read post]
