The Challenges of Gun Control: Denying Firearms to Terrorists
Co-authored by Daniel Trombly Following several tragic mass shootings, the U.S. is embroiled in a debate about gun control. The central question for many involved in this d...
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US Adds West African Group, 2 Leaders, to Terrorism List
The US government has added the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Unity] and Jihad in West Africa and two of its leaders to the list of global terrorists and entities. The Movement for Tawhid...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda-Linked Taliban Commander Killed in Recent Airstrike in Kunar
The Coalition confirmed that an al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander who was responsible for a recent suicide attack that killed three US soldiers and a USAID officer in Kunar was himself killed thr...
Op-eds
Afghan Intelligence Thwarts Complex Assault Plot in Kabul; Pakistani Suspect, 4 Others Arrested
By LWJ Staff Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel supported by Coalition forces thwarted a major terrorist plot in Kabul City late on Saturday night, preventi...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Calls on Jihadists to Attack NATO Supplies, ‘Secure the Back’ of the Afghan Taliban
Al Qaeda's top spokesman for Pakistan called on jihadists in Pakistan to attack NATO supply convoys to "secure the back" of al Qaeda's ally, the Afghan Taliban. Ustad Ahmad Far...
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Al Qaeda Emir for Kunar, Deputy, and Facilitator Killed in Airstrikes
The Coalition confirmed that al Qaeda's leader for Kunar province and his deputy were killed in Friday's airstrike in the Watahpur district. Both al Qaeda leaders were Pakistani citizen...
Op-eds
About that NATO Supply Line Deal …
Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist While the Obama administration is busy congratulating itself on the reopening of NATO's supply lines to Afghanistan after a seven-month shutof...
Op-eds
Bin Laden Loyalist Transferred from Guantanamo to Sudan
The Defense Department announced on Wednesday that Ibrahim al Qosi, a Guantanamo detainee who long served deceased al Qa...
Op-eds
Special Operations Forces Capture 2 IMU Leaders in Afghan North
Coailition and Afghan forces captured two leaders of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who were involved in suicide operations during a raid several days ago in the northern Afgh...
Op-eds
Jamaat-ud-Dawa Banners Dominate Defense of Pakistan Rally Against Reopening of NATO Supply Lines
Banners belonging to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charitable front group for the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, dominate a rally, or "long march," today in Lahore against the reopening of NATO'...
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‘We Will Carry Attacks on NATO Supplies with a New Spirit,’ Says Pakistani Taliban Spokesman
The top spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan vowed that his group would resume attacks on NATO's convoys to Afghanistan now that Pakistan has reopened the supply lines. Addi...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Panetta on Pakistan
During a trip to Afghanistan last week, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta chastised Pakistan for its ongoing support for the Haqqani Network – an insurgency organization that is closely tie...
Op-eds
Abu Yahya al Libi Killed in Latest Drone Strike, US Officials Say
US intelligence officials said they believe that Abu Yahya al Libi, al Qaeda's second in command and a top religious figure and ideologue, was killed in yesterday's drone strike in Paki...
Op-eds
Pakistani Jihadists Reported in Northern Mali
Over the past two months, Tuareg rebels, backed by Islamist terror groups such as Ansar al Dine, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, have seized cont...
Op-eds
Sudanese al Qaeda Fighter Killed in Yemen
A well-known jihadist Internet forum has announced that a Sudanese fighter who fought with a top al Qaeda military commander in Pakistan was killed during recent fighting in southern Yemen....
Op-eds
Special Operations Forces Kill Newly Appointed IMU Leader for Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed the newly appointed leader for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan's forces in Afghanistan during a raid in the northwest...
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The Haqqani Test
If Pakistan fails it, there must be consequences.
Op-eds
Mistaking Symptom for Cause
Arabs and Muslims have many reasons, some of them valid, to detest Israel. Though it is a liberal democracy in which Arabs have more freedoms than anywhere else in the Middle East, Israel remains...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Operations Chief for Pakistan Reported Killed in Predator Strike
A terrorist who US officials claimed is al Qaeda's operations chief for Pakistan is thought to have been killed in a recent Predator airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal ar...