Al-Qaeda and the Arab Spring
Sitting in his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound just days before his demise in May 2011, Osama bin Laden surveyed the political turmoil in the Middle East. In a memo dated April 26, 2011, the terro...
Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Investigating ‘Command and Control’ in Benghazi Attack
The Accountability Review Board’s investigation into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi says much about the deteriorating security situation surrounding the U.S. consulate...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Lives
The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Emir Calls on Egyptian Salafi Leader to Continue Revolution
A video posted on Egyptian websites this week shows Ayman al Zawahiri calling on the hardline Salafi leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail to relaunch the Egyptian revolution. While Zawahiri's call...
Op-eds
A Major Benghazi Terror Bust
The Egyptian government has nabbed a major terrorist tied to the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, according to...
Op-eds
Ansar al Sharia Egypt Founder ‘Honored to be an Extension of al Qaeda’
In an interview with the Cairo-based publication Al Shuruq al Jadid in late October, Ahmed Ashush, the fo...
Op-eds
Ansar al Sharia Egypt Releases Founding Statement
Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding statement online. The group says that "preaching and jihad are two wings that are indispensable to the spread of Islam," according to a translatio...
Op-eds
The ‘Hybrid View’ of Benghazi
The Washington Post...
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Zawahiri Says Raids on Diplomatic Facilities Were ‘Defeats’ for US
In a new audio message addressed to Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Ayman al Zawahiri cites the raids on US diplomatic facilities in September as evidence of American weakness....
Op-eds
Egypt Arrests Pro-al Qaeda Jihadist Tied to Benghazi Suspect
Sheikh 'Adel Shehato, a senior Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) official who has openly proclaimed his allegiance to al Qaeda's ideology, has...
Op-eds
Old School Egyptian Jihadists Linked to 9/11 Cairo Protest, Benghazi Suspect
Muhammad Jamal al Kashef, who is suspected of playing a significant role in the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, has longstanding ties to the...
Op-eds
Video Reportedly Shows Key Suspect From Benghazi Attack
One of the main suspects in the Sept. 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi appeared in a recent video posted online by an Egyptian media organization, according to the SITE Intelligence Grou...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Incited Cairo Protest
Rifai Ahmed Taha Musa, one of Egypt’s most notorious al Qaeda-linked terrorists, attended the U.S. embassy protest in Cairo on September 11. Musa was just one of several al Qaeda-affiliated...
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Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Helped Incite 9/11 Cairo Protest
Several al Qaeda-linked jihadists helped incite the protest outside the US embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11. The jihadists include senior members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a group that merged...
Op-eds
More Al Qaeda Connections in Benghazi
The Benghazi story continues to evolve. CNN reports that multiple al Qaeda franchises, and others with al Qaeda links, are suspected of taking part in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on t...
Op-eds
Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri
Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the...
Op-eds
How the Arab Spring’s Prisoner Releases Have Helped the Jihadi Cause
It's a problem.
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Responsible for 4 Attacks on US Embassies in September
On and around September 11, 2012, al Qaeda attacked multiple American assets around the world. The attack that has received the most attention is the deadly attack on the American consulate in Be...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Ally Orchestrated Assault on US Embassy in Tunisia
On Sept. 14, the US embassy in Tunis came under assault. The American staff evacuated the embassy unscathed, but the attackers hoisted an al Qaeda-style black flag high above the emptied compound...
Op-eds
In Service of the Blind Sheikh?
The investigation into the exact circumstances that brought us the twin attacks on U.S. diplomats in Egypt and Libya remains ongoing. Much remains uncertain. But a few new press accounts provide...