Sulaiman bu Ghaith

March 11, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn |

What Did Iran Know?

Last week, the U.S. government announced that Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden’s Kuwaiti-born spokesman and son-in-law, had been arrested in Jordan and is awaiting trial in New York Cit...

March 8, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Former bin Laden Spokesman in US Custody

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a former spokesman for Osama bin Laden, was arrested in Jordan and is currently being held in New York City. Abu Ghaith was initially detained in Turkey,...

July 11, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Senior al Qaeda Ideologue Freed in Mauritania

Family members of top al Qaeda ideologue Abu Hafs al Mauritani have confirmed that he was freed this past weekend. Abu Hafs was transferred from Iran, where he had lived since late 2001, to Mauri...

June 6, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Guantanamo Detainee Releases Audio Message to Syrian People

An audio message to the Syrian people purportedly from a current Guantanamo detainee has been released online by jihadist forums, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. The message is reported...

February 17, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn |

British Intel Concerned About Iran-Al Qaeda

Members of British intelligence are concerned about the possibility of Iran and al Qaeda teaming up in a plot against the West, perhaps in a joint attack against the 2012 Olympic Games in London....

February 6, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Al Qaeda Operative Killed During Clashes in Kurram Identified

Pakistani officials identified an al Qaeda operative from Azerbaijan as one of the six "foreigners" killed during recent clashes in the Kurram tribal agency that have resulted in the deaths of 23...

November 28, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Only has Two HVTs Left. Really.

What passes for a deep understanding of the nature of al Qaeda's leadership within US government intelligence circles continues to amaze. According to "US counterterrorism and intelligence o...

October 14, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Iran’s Qods Force Commander Involved in Plot to Kill Saudi Ambassador

The commanding general of Iran's Qods Force, the special operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, has been accused by the US government of being involved in the recently...

June 13, 2011 | The Long War Journal |

Zarqawi Aide Returns to Afghanistan to Wage Jihad For al Qaeda

An al Qaeda operative who was close to slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi has been released from Iranian custody and has recently returned to Afghanistan to fight NATO and Afghan...

June 10, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Al Qaeda’s Resurgence

FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...

October 9, 2010 | The Long War Journal |

Al Qaeda Leader Linked to Iran May Have Been Killed in Recent Predator Strike

A senior al Qaeda leader who serves as al Qaeda's ambassador to Iran, and is wanted by the US, is reported to have been killed in a Predator airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled t...

October 8, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Judge Finds That Kuwaiti Gitmo Detainee Was No Charity Worker

On Sept. 15, DC District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by a Kuwaiti detainee held at Guantanamo named Fayiz al Kandari. The ruling remained cl...

September 28, 2010 | The Long War Journal |

Osama bin Laden’s Spokesman Freed by Iran

Iran has allowed an al Qaeda terrorist who served as Osama bin Laden's spokesman to return to Afghanistan. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti preacher who gained worldwide infamy after the Septe...