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3 Dec 2022, 10:59 am by jonathanturley
In one column, Ali suggested white Republican voters would prefer to burn down their own homes then rent to a minority member and compared them to the Al Qaeda terrorists on Flight 93 . [read post]
29 Nov 2022, 5:01 am by Scott R. Anderson
After the occupation ended, it was cited as the legal basis for an array of similar activities in support of the new Iraqi government, most notably its efforts at combatting al-Qaeda-associated terrorist groups. [read post]
15 Nov 2022, 9:24 am by Scott R. Anderson
” This law was already being cited as the domestic legal basis for military action against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, just as it is today. [read post]
15 Nov 2022, 5:56 am by Jonathan Hafetz
The sheer magnitude of the 9/11 defendants’ alleged crimes might seem to outweigh the rationale for the clemency provided to Khan (while Khan admitted to serving as a courier for al Qaeda, he, unlike KSM and his co-defendants, had no direct role in the 9/11 attacks). [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 5:01 am by Anastasia Bradatan
The government claimed that Gul remained detainable “because he was functionally a member of al-Qaeda or, in the alternative, a substantial supporter of al-Qaeda. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 6:00 am by Katherine Yon Ebright
Al-Qaeda’s affiliates, like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, had to be separately identified as lawful targets.) [read post]
2 Nov 2022, 5:24 am by Emma Snell
  The Treasury Department has announced sanctions against a network of weapons traffickers with ties to the Islamic State in Somalia and al-Shabaab, a Somali militant group with ties to al Qaeda. [read post]
31 Oct 2022, 12:43 pm by Irene
This includes a growing population from Bangladesh, a recruiting ground for terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), getting caught by federal agents along the U.S. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:39 am by Emma Snell
The 2022 National Defense Strategy, released alongside the Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Review, cited threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State – and new challenges, like global climate change. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Guest Author
The Obama administration, Professor Shane explains in Democracy’s Chief Executive, contributed to the problem by, for example, further cementing White House control, started decades earlier by the Reagan administration, over the regulatory work of federal administrative agencies; appointing large numbers of White House-based policy czars (nearly thirty in its first year in office), most of whom were not subject to Senate confirmation; and relying on the 2001 congressional Authorization to Use… [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 5:31 am by William Byrd
Ever since the August 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, there has been widespread, almost universal, rhetoric in international diplomatic circles—ranging from the United Nations to the European Union and the United States to Russia—that the Taliban need to form a more inclusive government, with varying definitions and views on what that means in concrete terms. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 5:16 am by Ilana Krill
As the United States grapples with a fractured violent extremist landscape and the rapidly approaching midterms this fall, threats to critical infrastructure by a range of actors have metastasized significantly and grown more palpable. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 6:11 am by Luke Hartig
Kinetic operations against al-Shabaab in Somalia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, and al-Qaeda, then ISIS, in Libya would rise in the years after the document was signed. [read post]
16 Oct 2022, 7:01 am by Daniel Byman
Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have clearly defined leaders—if you were an al-Qaeda member, you accepted the leadership of Osama bin Laden, and then Ayman al-Zawahiri (until his recent death), and you are now probably eagerly awaiting the announcement of his successor. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 6:05 am by Joseph Margulies
Habib, they said, confessed to a leadership role in al-Qaeda and a prominent part in the 9/11 attacks. [read post]
A meeting in Doha, Qatar, on October 8 marked the first face-to-face interaction between the US government and the Taliban since al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by a US drone strike in Kabul on July 31. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 5:54 am by Brian Finucane
Whereas the Obama administration had initially conducted strikes against a handful of al-Shabaab members who also belonged to al-Qaeda, after the Pentagon began regularly engaging in ostensibly defensive strikes against rank-and-file al-Shabaab fighters, the administration retrospectively deemed the group as a whole covered by the 2001 AUMF. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 5:01 am by Katherine Yon Ebright
Pursuant to this two-pronged test, the Obama administration reported that it had designated six groups as associated forces: al-Shabab, ISIS, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al-Qaeda in Libya, al-Qaeda in Syria, and al-Qaeda and Taliban allies in Afghanistan. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 4:34 am by Emma Snell
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