Gitmo ‘Poet’ Now Recruiting for Islamic State
An ex-Guantanamo detainee based in northern Pakistan is leading an effort to recruit jihadists for the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls large portions of Iraq and Syria....
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FDD Scholar Says ‘Strong Possibility’ Foreign Fighters Could Attack in Europe or United States
WASHINGTON – Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, warned Friday that there is a “strong possibility” foreign fighters aligned with the Is...
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FDD Scholar to Testify Before Congress Friday on Threat of Islamist Foreign Fighters
WASHINGTON – Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Friday on “Islamist Foreign Fighters...
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Why Al Qaeda Released An American Hostage
Earlier today, the news broke that Peter Theo Curtis, an American who had been held hostage in Syria since 2012, has been released by his captors. Coming just days after another American hostage,...
Op-eds
Qatar Lite: The Mideast Maverick May Be Retreating
The Middle East’s most provocative, profligate microstate seems to be entering a more subdued stage. In a development Qatar’s neighbors should try to expand, the country’s new e...
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Iran On A Nuclear Roll
“America cannot do a damn thing.” A banner displaying that slogan adorned the stage of an elegant mausoleum in Tehran where ...
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The LA Times Whitewashes the Taliban Five
There is a concerted push to sanitize the records of four of the five Taliban leaders transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar. But before delving into some of the specifics, let us recount the basic...
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Qatar Bribery Allegations Loom Over The 2022 World Cup
... As former U.S. Treasury official Jonathan Schanzer tweeted about the Taliban prisoners released from Guantanamo into Qatari custody in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: &ldquo...
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Exclusive Interview: Obama ‘Acquiesced To The Demands Of The Taliban
Breitbart News spoke with Joscelyn about the threats posed by the newly freed senior Taliban commanders, as well as Qatar's role as an intermediary in the negotiations, and whether he though...
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The Trouble With Qatar
Mullah Omar, the head of the Taliban, doesn’t make statements often. Omar is so reclusive that some have even speculated that he is either dead, or otherwise incapacitated in Pakist...
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Five of the Most Dangerous Taliban Commanders in U.S. Custody Exchanged for American Captive
The Obama administration announced today that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who has been held by the Taliban for several years, has been freed from his captors. Reading the stories of his newfound...
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Here Are The Taliban Terrorists Obama Released To Free POW Bowe Bergdahl
... “They are undoubtedly among the most dangerous Taliban commanders held at Guantanamo,” said Thomas Joscelyn, a senior editor at the Long War Journal who keeps a c...
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The Real Moazzam Begg
Ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg was arrested earlier today as part of raid conducted by counterterrorism officials in the UK. Begg has spent most of his time living in the UK following his re...
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Karzai Gambles with the Taliban
Just when you thought Afghan President Hamid Karzai couldn’t distance himself further from the US and the West, which have propped him up for over a decade, he surprises you. The exact reas...
Op-eds
New Kuwaiti Justice Minister Has Deep Extremist Ties
Officials from over sixty countries gathered in Kuwait City yesterday for a United Nations donor conference, raising ...
Op-eds
Spinning Al-Qaeda
Since June 2012, Peter Bergen, the swashbuckling reporter who serves as CNN’s national-security analyst and a director of the liberal New America Foundation, has been among those in the for...
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New Senate Report: Al Qaeda Network Attacked in Benghazi
The Senate Intelligence Committee has now released its declassified review of the intelligence surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. The bottom line is this: Mul...
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The Gitmo Detainee the Times Just Denied Was in Benghazi . . . Was in Benghazi
U.S. officials ...
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Obama Administration’s Benghazi Bombshell
The Washington Post ...
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The New York Times Whitewashes Benghazi
David D. Kirkpatrick of the New York Times has ...