Tag Archives : Al Qaeda

The founder of the site WikiLeaks, a sort of Wikipedia of leaked files, said on Monday that more than 91,000 secret documents of the U.S. military bring up evidence of war crimes committed during the war in Afghanistan. On Sunday, the site posted thousands of American military records of six years of war against the Taliban Islamist group – from [...]

Lydia Khalil in Foreign Policy bolsters the realistic idea that no one really knows how a terrorist looks like, and that not even airport scanners can identify the real culprits. However, Khalil gives us the roster of terroristic talents that comprises al-Qaeda’s moving force. It is a rogue’s gallery of organized crime in global proportions. Khalil [...]

The United Nations has announced its intention to recall 60 staff members of the organization that constitute its international staff in Pakistan amid growing security concerns in the country. The withdrawal of the U.N workers will be in effect for six months and will not be applicable to the 2,700 Pakistani nationals, currently serving under United [...]

Five people were killed and eighty injured in a suicide bombing that took place outside a Shiite religious gathering in the capital of Kashmir, controlled by Pakistan. The bomber detonated the explosives during a security check at a checkpoint. Of the five killed, two have been identified as part of the police force and most of the 80 injured people [...]

US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s [...]

It’s been 8 years of cat-and-mouse chase between the US government and Osama bin Laden, the seemingly slippery leader of the slithery terrorist group al-Qaeda. With the US doing all the chasing and bin Laden doing all the skirting, one wonders at the vaunted reputation of American spies. In the news not too far back, we learned that the US military [...]

The Afghan surge can’t defeat terrorist ideology, experts say. According to Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, ‘President Obama should have used his speech to declare victory and announce the start of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan instead of an escalation. Even if the surge achieves its immediate mission—at huge cost—the operation [...]

A high-ranking member of the Taliban insurgent group who is now detained in Pakistan says that he was offered a chance to have a meeting with Osama bin Laden in January or February of this year, and ‘that the al-Qaeda leader is in eastern Afghanistan, not northern Pakistan as widely believed.’ This inmate had met with bin Laden ‘numerous times [...]

After a brief lull in the relentless terror campaign led by militant forces hiding in South Waziristan, Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad was once again rocked by a suicide bomb attack, this time on the country’s naval headquarters. The blast killed 1 person and injured 11 others in a country whose sole survival is now threatened by the exponential [...]

Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan has less to do with military action than ‘turning the war over to the Afghans.’ ‘The challenge lies in leveling the playing field by inserting operatives into the Taliban. Since the Afghan intelligence services are inherently insecure, they can’t carry out such missions. American personnel bring technical intelligence [...]