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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 [...]

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 judicial [...]

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 Eric Holder to hold the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A newly-published scientific research paper gives the conclusion that the harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration may have ‘damaged the brains of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought.’ The harsh techniques utilized on the suspects [...]

A threat letter from the Taliban reads: “We have warned you. If we now kill schoolgirls, you shouldn’t be surprised.” In a Taliban-controlled area in northern Afghanistan, civilians are faced with the prospect of going against the Taliban all by themselves should they dare to as Afghan police and military are afraid to go to these places. [...]

The think tank group called Open Society Institute, an organization promoting democracy and funded by billionaire George Soros, has released a report resulting from a study on ethnic profiling. The report ‘Ethnic Profiling in the European Union’ asserts that ‘profiling is both ineffective and counterproductive.’ The report states that the [...]

A Pentagon report reveals that one out of every seven prisoners that got detained at the US prisons in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba went back to terrorist activity after being transferred abroad. There had already been 534 former Gitmo detainees that were transferred elsewhere. 74 ex-detainees are said to have re-engaged in terrorism. 29 of these have been [...]