Tag: al-Qaeda

The concept of the CNAS report is eerily similar to the plot of Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American, in which the undercover CIA agent Alden Pyle is seeking to create a pro-American “Third Force” in Vietnam that will be an alternative to communism and colonialism.

Obama published guidance requiring that drone pilots have “near certainty” that non-combatants will not be harmed before firing, drone strikes in Pakistan have killed 352 militants and only six civilians.

FighterSweep fans, check out this pretty cool JDAM compilation of strikes in Afghanistan. The Joint Direct Attack Munition has become the weapon of choice for US forces.  It is a precision guided weapon, meaning it uses a Global Positioning System (GPS)-aided Inertial Navigation System (INS). Precision guided munitions are able to reduce collateral damage, meaning […]

Panamanian officials sold visas for transit purposes to members of Hezbollah and al-Shabaab—both known for their role in the drug trade and narco-terror.

G4S contends that, because Omar Mateen did not commit mass murder while on the job, the company bears no responsibility for his crime. Nigel Fairbrass, the director of media relations at G4S, explained, “While we continue to review the evidence, we know this much to be true: nothing about Omar Mateen’s employment with G4S contributed to, or could have prevented, this terrible event.”

Lone wolf jihadists should target white Americans so no one mistakes their terror attacks for hate crimes unrelated to the cause of radical Islam, Al Qaeda writes in the latest edition of its online magazine. In an article first reported by The Foreign Desk, Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) called for more self-directed […]

In the vehicle, SIS agents uncovered what they were looking for – dangerous nuclear material, which was even more dangerously transported, in aluminum foil.

SIS agents also gun recovered counterfeit identification documents, guns and knives. Thus far, the Chisinau Prosecutor has only released that two of the arrested were Moldovan citizens, and the pair will face ten years on the radioactive smuggling charges alone.

This past week has filled me with dismay. I thought I had really been beyond the point of being shocked by the media and the government colluding to set an agenda, but even I was surprised by the all-out push this week to turn the focus of the terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida from, you […]

The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, said on Thursday there were tens of thousands of Islamic State fighters around the world, more than al Qaeda at its height. He also told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that the agency was concerned about the growth of Libya as a base of operations […]

Unfortunately, despite all our progress against [Daesh] on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach. The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses of territory, manpower, and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly.

Once a center of learning and culture, the city housed a priceless collection of manuscripts: volumes of poetry, encyclopedias, and even sexual manuals that invoked the name of Allah. Threatened with destruction, the manuscripts were spirited out of the city to safety in a thrilling, cloak-and-dagger operation.

The US government continues to underestimate al Qaeda’s strength in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The US Department of State noted that a “severely degraded” al Qaeda was able to operate “a large training camp” inside Afghanistan, one of three that were known to be in operation inside the terrorist hotbed over the past year. State noted the al Qaeda […]