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16 Dec 2020, 10:30 am by Anna Salvatore, Tia Sewell
Abdullah, who is described as an operative for the al-Qaeda Somali affiliate al-Shabaab, allegedly trained as a pilot and took other steps in preparation to hijack a civil aircraft and conduct an attack on a U.S. city. [read post]
12 Dec 2020, 12:17 pm by Tom Smith
Adel Abdel Bary, 60, had spent 21 years in a New Jersey prison for his role in the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 1:01 pm by Anna Salvatore
   While the U.S. and the Taliban were completing their February peace deal, the Taliban was coordinating actively with al-Qaeda—even though one of the deal’s requirements was that the Taliban sever its ties with the Islamic terrorist group. [read post]
In fact, a very senior Al Qaeda leader was recently killed by Afghan security forces in a Taliban-controlled district in eastern Afghanistan. [read post]
6 Dec 2020, 7:01 am by Jessica Davis
Criminalization of terrorist financing has enabled law enforcement to investigate and prosecute individuals involved in raising funds for myriad terrorist groups, from the Tamil Tigers to the Islamic State to al-Qaeda to Hezbollah. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 6:02 am by Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck
Tune in as Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss the latest in national security legal developments, including: Prospects for the Biden Administration to chart a new course with respect to (a) the use of military detention at GTMO, (b) the transfer of GTMO detainees approved for such transfer already, or (c) the use of military commissions as the vehicle for criminal prosecutions Prospects for the nomination to be Secretary of Defense, and the role of the federal statute requiring… [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 11:54 am by Lawson Fite
Bush administration from recognizing and responding to the threat posed by al-Qaeda. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 10:28 am by Bryce Klehm
” A DIA assessment, paraphrased in the report, also notes that “al-Qaeda leaders support the agreement because it does not require the Taliban to publicly renounce al-Qaeda and the deal includes a timeline for the United States and coalition forces to withdraw—accomplishing one of al-Qaeda’s main goals. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 9:22 am by Anna Salvatore, Tia Sewell
  Al-Qaeda terrorist Adel Abdel Bary will soon be released from prison, reports the New York Times. [read post]
22 Nov 2020, 7:01 am by Tricia Bacon
In fact, there is no al-Qaeda ally more important than the Taliban, except arguably al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 9:13 am by Anna Salvatore, Tia Sewell
Jen Patja Howell posted an episode of the Lawfare Podcast featuring an interview with Lawfare’s foreign policy editor, Dan Byman, on the reported killing of top Al Qaeda leadership in Iran: Courtney Freer discussed the future of politics in Kuwait in Lawfare’s Foreign Policy Essay. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 8:18 am by Daniel Byman
On Tuesday, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Daniel Byman about the reports and rumors surrounding al-Qaeda leadership on the Lawfare Podcast. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 10:50 am by Anna Salvatore, Tia Sewell
Jen Patja Howell posted yesterday’s edition of the Lawfare Podcast featuring an interview with Lawfare’s foreign policy editor, Dan Byman, on the reported killing of top Al Qaeda leadership in Iran. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
In addition, there are some rumors about Al Qaeda's #1, Ayman al-Zawahri, also passing into the hereafter. [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 9:57 am by Anna Salvatore
” According to the Associated Press, the U.S. and Israel collaborated earlier this year to track and kill Al-Qaeda’s number two leader in Iran. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 12:59 pm by Tom Smith
It is unclear what role if any was played by the United States, which had been tracking the movements of Mr. al-Masri and other Qaeda operatives in Iran for years. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 7:56 am by Yaya J. Fanusie
Department of Justice recently released a cryptocurrency enforcement framework that lays out significant national security wins against cryptocurrency-related crime—including interdicting Islamic State and al-Qaeda Bitcoin funding campaigns, disrupting North Korean hackers laundering stolen cryptocurrency, indicting ransomware operatives in Iran, charging Russian operatives using cryptocurrency in election interference activities, and breaking up fentanyl smugglers operating… [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 8:37 am by Doowan Lee, DeVan Shannon
On May 27, 2001, three months before 9/11, three American citizens, Martin and Gracia Burnham and Guillermo Sobero, were kidnapped by a local al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic terrorist organization—the Abu Sayyaf Group. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 7:01 am by Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware
Between the ongoing challenges of monitoring al-Qaeda and Islamic State attack planning in the United States, coupled with mounting instances of anarchist and other left-wing violence, authorities face an unprecedented deluge of threat information and intelligence. [read post]