Spencer Ackerman has this to say about Obama’s racial profiling which could endanger the US: “We need to call this what it is: a security risk. If you are one of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, a president who spent part of his childhood in Indonesia is sending you the message that you are considered [...]

Even if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian national who planned to blow up a passenger plane over Detroit on Christmas day, botched his job, the implications that the incident created have been sending huge waves in many governments across the globe. He allegedly trained in a militant camp in Yemen. Hence, Yemen is now considered [...]

Yemen has been evaluated by some authorities as a failing state, on its way to following the footsteps of dismally-governed Somalia that has become a failed state. Yemen is currently wracked by the al-Qaeda threat. There is also a war in the northern part of the country with Shi’ite rebels. In the south, a separatist [...]

Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been hogging global headlines for his unsuccessful attempt to blow up a passenger aircraft over Detroit. What alarmed authorities was the fact that metal detectors were not able to sense the chemical he planned to detonate on board. The intelligence network has also been under fire for letting a [...]

According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape capture in order to justify the Iraq war.’ He says, “I don’t [...]

Former US president George W. Bush convoluted some definitions. ‘The ambiguity began shortly after 9/11, when then-U.S. President George W. Bush defined two missions: waging a war on terror, and bringing Osama bin Laden and his followers to justice. Both made for good rhetoric. But they also were fundamentally contradictory. A war is not a [...]

The alleged masterminds and perpetrators of 9/11, headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are finally facing a civilian court in New York City. In a stroke of agit-propaganda genius, the 9/11 suspects will be tried in a court that is ‘just blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood.’ The decision by US Attorney General [...]

While the terrain is, indeed, extremely rugged, the area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is heavily populated, contrary to popular belief. The area of the FATA has millions of Pakistani residents, and most of them are ‘extremely conservative and hostile toward the Pakistani government.’ In 1998, South Waziristan had a population of nearly half a million [...]

When it comes to Afghanistan and Pakistan, US Vice President Joe Biden enjoys the privilege of having his president’s faith in his advices and recommendations. Biden’s proposals include American forces to ‘ concentrate on eliminating the Qaeda leadership, primarily in Pakistan, using Special Operations forces, Predator missile strikes and other surgical tactic,’ and ‘not increasing [...]

The US Treasury reports that al-Qaeda is ‘in its worst financial state for many years while the Taliban’s funding is flourishing.’ According to David Cohen, a terrorist financing official, al-Qaeda ‘had made several appeals for funds already this year.’ Cohen adds that ‘the al-Qaeda leadership has already warned that a lack of funds was hurting [...]