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30 May 2021, 7:01 am by Alex Thurston
Meanwhile, drawing on the connections of some globally minded jihadists within Boko Haram’s orbit, Shekau built connections with other jihadist movements, notably al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and al-Qaeda central. [read post]
25 May 2021, 5:01 am by Adam Chan
The government asserted, as the basis for detention, that Al-Hela maintained contact with several known and suspected al-Qaeda affiliates. [read post]
It is hard to imagine that the 9/11 Commission would have performed as it did had it been staffed in part by people who found it politically advantageous to profess sympathies to al-Qaeda. [read post]
17 May 2021, 2:09 pm by Matt Gluck
Government prosecutors are requesting that Navalny’s network and his Anti-Corruption Foundation be labeled as “extremist” organizations, putting members of these organizations in the same group as those associated with the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda. [read post]
17 May 2021, 7:22 am by Christian Grostic, N.D. Ohio
At his first change-of-plea hearing, he maintained that he didn't attempt to assist al-Qaeda, and the district court refused to accept his guilty plea as a result. [read post]
14 May 2021, 1:18 pm by Matt Gluck
Khan was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006 and pleaded guilty in 2012 to terrorism charges related to his work supporting Al Qaeda following the attacks on September 11. [read post]
14 May 2021, 11:05 am by Howard Bashman
Testimony; Under a deal with the military court, Majid Khan, who has admitted being a courier for Al Qaeda, will give up his chance to call witnesses to his torture in return for being released as soon as next year”: Carol Rosenberg and Julian E. [read post]
5 May 2021, 11:21 am by Hina Shamsi
” The PSP doesn’t even bother referring to “affiliate forces” of ISIS or Al Qaeda in identifying potential targets of operations—rather, it refers to their purported networks “across the globe. [read post]
” The CIA originally believed that Zubaydah was a close associate of al-Qaeda, but after four years of torture, they concluded that he was not linked to the group. [read post]
2 May 2021, 7:48 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Policy:In Brief Updated March 25, 2021: “Afghanistan emerged as a significant U.S. foreign policy concern in2001, when the United States,in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led a military campaign against Al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban government that harbored and supported it. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 1:02 pm by Tia Sewell
In a rare interview with CNN, two al Qaeda operatives said that as Biden withdraws from Afghanistan, the organization’s “war against the U.S. will be continuing on all other fronts,” writes the Hill. [read post]
29 Apr 2021, 8:40 am by Bryce Klehm, Rohini Kurup
Al Qaeda and ISIS are in Yemen, Syria, Somalia, other places in Africa and the Middle East and beyond. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 4:59 pm by Amy Howe
The government originally claimed that he was a senior al-Qaeda official, but subsequent reporting has cast significant doubt on that claim. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 12:17 pm by Tia Sewell
” He added, “It clearly provides the remaining Guantanamo detainees with a new ground on which to challenge the legal basis for their continuing military detention, and one that is not necessarily foreclosed by existing precedent … But it’s not at all clear that courts will be sympathetic to those arguments, not just because they haven’t been to date, but because the Executive Branch is likely to argue that the conflict with al Qaeda isn’t… [read post]
25 Apr 2021, 7:01 am by Ali Wyne
Arguing that America’s intervention in Iraq had undercut its original post-9/11 focus, President Obama explained in March 2009 that the United States should pursue “a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [read post]
He said that the terror threat has become dispersed and pointed to al-Shabaab in Somalia, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Nusra in Syria, ISIS’ attempt to create a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and ISIS affiliates in Africa and Asia. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 5:37 am
From the column:The bargain struck by the Trump administration with the Taliban required it to break all ties with al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 11:23 am by Tia Sewell
ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Tore Refslund Hamming argued that even if al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead, the organization maintains strong leadership and remains a resilient threat. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 10:46 am by Tom Smith
Surely he doesn’t really believe the U.S. government is worse than al-Qaeda? [read post]
11 Apr 2021, 7:01 am by Tore Refslund Hamming
One of al-Maghribi’s aides in Iran is Qattal al-Abdali, a Saudi national and veteran al-Qaeda official, who is assisting in running the al-Qaeda media structure. [read post]