Tanzania

August 13, 2012 | Mark Dubowitz |

So You Want to Be a Sanctions-Buster

It’s easy -- if you try hard enough and have the right friends! Here’s a handy how-to guide to making moolah from the mullahs.

July 13, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Wall Street Journal |

How Iran Steams Past International Sanctions

By reflagging and renaming its ships, Tehran keeps one step ahead of the law.

July 12, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

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...

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...

July 5, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer IHS Defense, Risk and Security Consulting |

Pariah State: Examining Sudan’s Support for Terrorism

***This article originally appeared in "State Sponsorship of Terrorism", a publication of IHS Defense, Risk and Security Consulting, in June 2012. Reproduced with permission © IHS (Global...

June 14, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

Obama’s Classified Leaks Are Probably Not Prosecutable

In my post over the weekend about the folly of pushing for a special prosecutor on t...

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

May 8, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Analysis: Spinning Iran and al Qaeda, Part 2

Editor's note: Part 1 of this series was published on May 5, 2012. In a recently released report on Osa...

April 26, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

The New McCarthyism

THE MEDIA has been quick to lionize Mary McCarthy, the recently fired 61-year-old CIA analyst who allegedly leaked classified information to the Washington Post's Dana Priest. According to s...

March 13, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill 2 ‘Good Taliban’ Commanders in Pair of Strikes in South Waziristan

Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 15 Taliban fighters, including two commanders of a faction considered to be "good Taliban" by the Pakistani government, during a pair of stri...

February 29, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Honcho Probably Not in Egyptian Custody

This morning, there was a curious report originating with the Egyptian state press and then repeated throughout the Western media that Saif al Adel, a longtime al Qaeda bigwig, had flown from Pak...

February 17, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Treasury: Iranian Intelligence Supporting al Qaeda

The US Treasury Department today designated the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) "for its s...

February 16, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Report: New Leader of al Qaeda Network in Iran Named

A notorious Kuwaiti terrorist named Muhsin al Fadhli has reportedly taken over leadership of al Qaeda's network inside Iran. Sky News...

February 12, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn, Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

‘We in MYC are Now Part of al Qaeda East Africa’

The Muslim Youth Center, Shabaab's affiliate in Kenya, said it has become "part of al Qaeda East Africa." The statement was made just one day after al Qaeda and Shabaab formalized their long...

February 12, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda’s Unsurprising Merger

Several years ago, I was having drinks at an Irish bar with an intelligence official. (Al Qaeda is always best discussed while drinking Guinness.) He had brought with him several pages of publicl...

February 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Shabaab Formally Joins al Qaeda

Shabaab and al Qaeda have announced their formal merger, according to a video disseminated online today and translated by the SITE Intelligence group. In the video, Mukhtar Abu al Zubayr (a.k.a....

January 31, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

When Did the War Start? Or Did It?

Almost everything you read about the “increasing tension” between Iran and the United States revolves around the rhetorical question, “will there be a war?” Whether it&rsq...

January 13, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Shabaab Names New Leader of Kenyan Branch

  Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, has designated a radical Kenyan preacher who has advocated jiha...

December 14, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Jihadist Releases Bio of Yemeni al Qaeda Operative Killed in Somalia

A jihadist released a martyrdom statement for a seasoned al Qaeda operative who waged jihad in Bosnia, Dagestan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia; escaped from a prison in Yemen; and tra...

November 23, 2011 | |

Romney’s Iran Gaffe

Ahmadinejad is not a law-enforcement problem.