Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights
The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Bin Laden Docs Hint at Large al Qaeda Presence in Pakistan
Two of the 17 documents released by the US government from the large cache seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound indicate that al Qaeda has a much larger footprint in Pakistan...
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Osama bin Laden on the Muslim Brotherhood
One of the chief beneficiaries of the Arab Spring thus far has been the Muslim Brotherhood, which has gained power in Egypt and elsewhere. This did not escape Osama bin Laden's attention pri...
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Al Qaeda Releases Vdeo of American Captured in Pakistan
Al Qaeda has released its first video of Warren Weinstein, an American citizen who was kidnapped in Lahore, Pakistan in August 2011. In the videotape, Weinstein pleaded with US President Barack O...
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Declassify Intelligence that Led to Bin Laden
Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and National Clandestine Service, has made quite a splash in the past couple of days. Building on arguments in his new b...
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Senior al Qaeda Ideologue Leaves Iran for Mauritania
Abu Hafs al Mauritani, a senior al Qaeda religious thinker known as "Mr. Theology," has reportedly left Iran for his home country. According to some press accounts, the Iranians "extradited" Abu...
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Taliban Demand Release of bin Laden’s Wives, Kill 7 Pakistani Troops
Today the spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan threatened that the group would "carry out suicide bombings against security forces and the government" if Osama bin Laden's t...
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War Crimes and Punishment
“To the justice of the firing squad!” That was the toast proposed by Stalin to Roosevelt and Churchill over dinner in 1943 in Tehran. They were meeting for the first time and...
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Commander Killed in Drone Strike ‘Funneled Pakistani Jihadists’ to al Qaeda
A senior Taliban and Qaeda commander said to have been killed in the latest US drone strike in North Waziristan played a key role in funneling fighters from a radical Pakistani jihadist group to...
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Leaders of German al Qaeda Cell Living in Iran
In early October 2010, US forces launched a drone airstrike against a militant compound in North Waziristan, Pakistan. The intent of the strike was to kill members of a German al Qaeda cell that...
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US Warns of Terror Threat in Thailand
The US Embassy in Bangkok issued an "Emergency Message to US Citizens" that warned of "Possible Terrorist Threat." The statement was...
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The President, the Constitution, and National Security
A response to Lindsey Graham
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A Terrorist Released
Binyam Mohamed is ...
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Blind Sheikh’s Son Killed in US Airstrike in Afghanistan
The son of the 'Blind Sheikh,' the spiritual leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is in a US jail for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, was killed in a US airstrike in Afgh...
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War-Power Paranoia
Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille...
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Awlaki’s Death a Delayed Counterterrorism Success
Anwar al Awlaki has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Yemen, bringing an end to the life of one of al Qaeda’s most effective recruiters. Awlaki had an especially s...
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Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers
Co-Authored with Debra Burlingame On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of...
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The Daqduq Dilemma
He is an enemy combatant, so treat him as one.
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The al Qaeda- Taliban Connection
Obama takes his eye off the ball.
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NYT: Bin Laden’s Courier Tied to Pakistani-Backed Terror Group
Contacts between Harakat ul Mujahedin (HUM), a terrorist organization long sponsored by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, and Osama bin Laden's most trusted courier have...