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24 Aug 2021, 11:33 am by Elizabeth Threlkeld
  The Taliban are an unlikely partner in counterterrorism given their long-standing ties to organizations including al-Qaeda. [read post]
22 Aug 2021, 1:08 pm
 Pix Credit here (Tony Blair and George Bush after a White House press conference in November 2004) Pix Credit HERE; Final Scene as the heroes leave Anyone who claims to be someone has been polishing up their opinions about the tragedy in the form of a farce that is the botched up U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. [read post]
The immediate United States objective at the time of the 2001 invasion was to destroy Al Qaeda’s base of operations in Afghanistan and to kill or capture senior Al Qaeda leaders there. [read post]
16 Aug 2021, 12:47 pm by Tom Smith
” Four years after that, in August of 2006, Bush announced: “Al Qaeda and the Taliban lost a coveted base in Afghanistan and they know they will never reclaim it when democracy succeeds. [read post]
16 Aug 2021, 11:52 am by Tom Smith
The Sunnis we disenfranchised by destroying the Ba’ath Party of Iraq fell in large proportion to non-state Sunni actors, al-Qaeda and ISIS. [read post]
16 Aug 2021, 9:57 am by Stewart Baker
He may not have been convinced that the techniques in question would be crucial to preventing another attack or defeating Al-Qaeda, but he was clear that the final call should not be made by lawyers. [read post]
16 Aug 2021, 9:13 am by Stewart Baker
He may not have been convinced that the techniques in question would be crucial to preventing another attack or defeating Al-Qaeda, but he was clear that the final call should not be made by lawyers. [read post]
15 Aug 2021, 9:43 pm by binder'sblog
Bagram held 5,000 Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners, including some transferred from Gitmo. [read post]
9 Aug 2021, 12:56 pm by Ajay Sarma
” The attack, which took place at Manda Bay, was carried out by al-Shabab, an Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaeda. [read post]
4 Aug 2021, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
," the definitive early study of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 1:36 pm by Allan Blutstein
.) -- concluding that the CIA properly relied on Exemptions 1 and 3 to withhold two documents related to an al Qaeda training manual, but that Exemption 5 did not protect a draft intelligence report because because “it fails to identify any agency decision-making process in connection with which the document was created. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 5:52 am
"... greater than ISIS or al Qaeda or China or Russia, why do they need to manufacture a plot — and put in people's heads — the idea let's go kidnap Governor Whitmer? [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 8:57 am by Katherine Harvey, Bruce Riedel
The Jordanian embassy in Baghdad was also among the first targets of al-Qaeda in Iraq. [read post]
13 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm by Samuel Estreicher and Julian Ku
The U.S. military’s use of drone strikes against al-Qaeda and ISIS have also resulted in numerous civilian deaths despite the best efforts of the U.S. military to adhere to IHL. [read post]
10 Jun 2021, 8:42 am by Rohini Kurup
He was initially thought to be a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative and a plotter of the Sept. 11 attacks, but a 2014 report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found that the CIA had concluded by August 2006 that Abu Zubaydah was not a member of al-Qaeda. [read post]
Zubaydah, a similar case in which the government invoked state secret privilege to avoid accountability for years-long torture of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner whom they have admitted is not an associate of al-Qaeda but has not been freed. [read post]
7 Jun 2021, 2:10 pm by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
No organization has claimed responsibility for the massacre, but government officials in Burkina Faso blamed militants tied to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. [read post]