Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

September 18, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning Home and the Threat to Europe

Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe....

September 18, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning Home and the Threat to Europe

Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe....

September 8, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Jonathan Schanzer

Keep Your Frenemies List Short and Your Enemies List Shorter

... Of course, international relations have never been a simple matter of sorting other nations and groups into friends or enemies, as Daveed Garte...

August 26, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

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,...

June 16, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Jonathan Schanzer

When America’s Enemies Are Also Its Friends

President Obama’s May 28 commencement address at...

June 13, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Their 9/11 Role

One of the five senior Taliban leaders transferred to Qatar in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl played a key role in al Qaeda’s plans leading up to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....

June 11, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

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 ...

April 14, 2014 | Bill Roggio

Assessing Terrorism in the Caucasus and the Threat to the Homeland

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August 5, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

INTERPOL Alert Warns of Al Qaeda’s Jailbreaks

INTERPOL issued a “global security alert advising increased vigilance for terror...

March 25, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht The Washington Post

The CIA’s Interrogation Program Deserves a Public Airing

The Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have bequeathed to the lucky few with clearances a...

February 14, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The ‘Targeted-Killing’ Memos

Why shouldn’t the public get to read them?

January 17, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Osama and the Two Nazirs

Their deaths are instructive.

December 4, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Gitmo’s Troubling Afterlife: The Global Consequences of U.S. Detention Policy

Closing the camps in Guantánamo Bay won't address the real problems with noncriminal incarceration.

September 13, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

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...

September 7, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Obama Politicizes Bin Laden Raid, Again

During his acceptance speech last night, President Obama claimed, “I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and we have.” The clear impli...

August 24, 2012 |

Mocking Justice in Norway: The Breivik Trial Targets Contrarian Intellectuals

“Wow.” This is the only word Tonje Brenna heard Anders Behring Breivik utter as he methodically killed sixty-nine of her fellow Norwegian Labor Party acti...

August 3, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Egypt Requests Release of al Qaeda Explosives Expert

The Egyptian government has requested the release of a top al Qaeda explosives expert from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to...

July 23, 2012 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Interrogating Terror

How tough justice keeps us free.

July 3, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post |

Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, and India’s Role in Prosecuting the Global War on Terrorism

The 10 Islamist terrorists who committed the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks killed 164 innocent people with guns, grenades and bombs. Nine of the killers died during their rampage. The 10th, Ajmal...

June 14, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Abu Zubaydah and Iran

At the Washington Free Beacon, Bill Gertz has a piece about Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA’s Counte...