The Drone War: Terrorizing Terrorists | NYPOST.com

Posted by Matt in February 5th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Drone, Drones, Fiddles, Franchises, Fumbles, Militants, Missiles, Nypost, Stronghold, terror, terrorists

As the administration fiddles and fumbles with its soft- on-terror policies at home, one Obama-blessed campaign abroad is hitting al Qaeda and its franchises hard: the drone war.
On Tuesday, an up-the-ante wave of attacks fired 18 missiles from Unmanned Aerial Systems. (UAS is our term of the week for drones.) The strike hit a terrorist [...]

Senators Warned of Terrorist Attack on U.S. by July – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in February 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, American Soil, High Priority, Intelligence Official, Lawmakers, Nytimes, Scale Attack, Senators, Six Months, Terrorist Attack

America’s top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Al Qaeda and its affiliates had made it a high priority to attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months.
Senators Warned of Terrorist Attack on U.S. by July – NYTimes.com

DEBKAfile – US Anti-Terror Authorities Missed Writing on the Wall – in Jeddah

Posted by Matt in January 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Asiri, Assassin, Authorities, Cia Agents, Explosives, Hassan, Informant, Intelligence Experts, jeddah, Khair, Prototype, Saudi Minister, Suicide Bomber, Tali, Taliban, Umar, Underwear, Us Soldier, Writing On The Wall

Like the Nigerian bomber Umar Abdulmutallab, the Saudi minister’s would-be assassin, Abdullah Hassan Tali’ al-Asiri (al Qaeda-styled Abu Khair), who did not survive the attack, used explosives hidden in his underwear to fool the prince’s bodyguards. He won an audience with the prince by posing as an informant, the same trick used by the Taliban [...]

DEBKAfile – A Tardy Wake-up Call for Spreading al Qaeda Menace

Posted by Matt in December 29th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Arabian Peninsula, Baluchistan, Deaf, Debkafile, Flood, Gulf Of Aden, Osama Bin Laden, Security Agencies, terror, Wake Up Call, Yemen, Yemeni

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources note that in the past year, Washington was strangely deaf to a flood of notices from Saudi, Egyptian and Yemeni security agencies warning that al Qaeda networks had established themselves in Yemen and so gained a jumping-off base into the Arabian peninsula and across the strategic Gulf of Aden. The network was [...]

Al Qaeda may try to provoke India-Pakistan conflict | Reuters

Posted by Matt in December 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Conflict, India, Pakistan, Act, Al-Qaeda, Guarantee, India Pakistan Conflict, Indian Parliament, Indian Soil, Lashkar E Taiba, Militant Group, One Million, Parliament, Quot, Reuters, Tension

“When they can’t guarantee there will be no attacks in their own country, they can’t guarantee India won’t be attacked.”
India, angry at Pakistan’s refusal to act against the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group blamed for killing 166 people in the Mumbai attacks, has rejected calls for talks and suggested it could even retaliate were there to be [...]

C.I.A. Is Expanding Drone Assaults Inside Pakistan – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in December 3rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Drone, Job, Langley, Militants, Nytimes, Pakistan, Sharpshooters, Suburban, Taliban, Traffic

Two weeks ago in Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency sharpshooters killed eight people suspected of being militants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and wounded two others in a compound that was said to be used for terrorist training.
Then, the job in North Waziristan done, the C.I.A. officers could head home from the agency’s Langley, Va., [...]

Pakistan’s nuclear bases targeted by al-Qaeda – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in October 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, Allegations, British Expert, Fears, Least Three Times, Nuclear Arsenal, Nuclear Device, Nuclear Disaster, Nuclear Weapon, Pakistan Nuclear, Taliban, Telegraph, terrorists

Pakistan’s nuclear weapon bases have been attacked by al-Qaeda and the Taliban at least three times in the last two years, it has emerged.
The allegations, by a leading British expert on Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, increased fears that terrorists could acquire a nuclear device or could trigger a nuclear disaster by bombing an atomic facility.

Pakistan’s nuclear [...]

Russia and Islam are not Separate: Why Russia backs Al-Qaeda by Konstantin Preobrazhensky

Posted by Matt in September 24th, 2009 | 3 comments

Published in Russia, Al-Qaeda, American Attitudes, Distinction, Global Threat, Islam, Islamic Terrorism, KGB, Konstantin Preobrazhensky, Logical Connection, Manipulation, Russia, Victory, World Communism

A key distinction between Russian and American attitudes towards Islamic terrorism is that while for America terrorism is largely seen as an exterior menace, Russia uses terrorism as an object as a tool of the state for manipulation in and outside the home country. Islamic terrorism is only part of the world of terrorism. Long [...]

Bin Laden to U.S.: ‘Drop Israel, Let’s Talk’

Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, Afghanistan Iraq, Al-Qaeda, American Nation, Audio Tape, Battlefields, Chechnya, Eighth Anniversary, Family Security, Injustices, Israel Lobby, Israeli Relations, Minute Address, Monday Night, Osama Bin Laden, Propaganda Arm, Security Matters, September 11 2001, Somalia, Terror Group, Umma

In a 12-minute address on audio tape, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11. The tape was produced by the as-Sahab propaganda arm of the terror group and posted on various Jihadists forums on Monday night. His address, directed “to the American People,” asserted that [...]

‘Black Hawks’ return to Somalia | GlobalPost

Posted by Matt in September 15th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, Al Qaeda Militants, Al-Qaeda, Ali Saleh, Black Hawks, Bombings, Convoy, Dramatic Shift, East Africa, Embassies, Hawks, Helicopter Gunships, Horn Of Africa, Nabhan, Qaeda Leader, Qaeda Target, Somalia

A strike by six U.S. helicopter gunships on an Al Qaeda target in Somalia on Monday marks a dramatic shift in U.S. policy to a direct hands-on approach to the failed state in the Horn of Africa.
The American gunships attacked a convoy of vehicles carrying Al Qaeda militants and killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, [...]