The Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooter Shows That Al-Qaeda Is Still a Significant Threat
We now know that Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani was working for AQAP.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
ISIL’s Virtual Planners: A Critical Terrorist Innovation
On December 19, Anis Amri plowed a hijacked truck through the Christm...
Op-eds
Operation Hemorrhage: The Terror Plans to Wreck the West’s Economy
Every European who flies frequently knows the airport in Zaventem, has spent time in the ticketing area that was strewn with blood, limbs, broken glass, battered luggage and other wreckage. ...
Op-eds
The Long War Continues
In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
Op-eds
Talking About Terror
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democraci...
Op-eds
The Al Qaeda Factor, and the Fate of a Jihadi Group
The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West by Mitchell D. Silber. One reason terrorism watchers have often been wrong about some of the critical...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Spins Failed Plots as Successes Because They Ramp Up Security and Drain US Treasury
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, blamed for a thwarted plot to bring down an airplane using explosives concealed in the bomber’s underpants, has emerged as likely the most potent Al Qaeda...
Op-eds
The Messages of Toulouse
Lone-wolf terrorists are a growing threat. Moderate Muslims are among those in the crosshairs.
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Round-Up, 2012
As we enter a new year, I wanted to outline the contours of, and analyze, a few issues that are likely to feature prominently in the fight between the U.S. and al Qaeda in 2012....
Op-eds
With Holder, the Politicizing Never Stops
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be underwear bomber who tried to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and kill its 292 passengers and crew on Chr...
Op-eds
Anwar Al-Awlaki’s American Journey
He was born in a land of freedom, tolerance and opportunity. He wanted none of it.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Death By a Thousand Cuts
See all those security lines? Just because al Qaeda's recent attacks haven't succeeded doesn't mean the terrorists are failing.
Op-eds
Anwar Al Awlaki’s Direct Connection to Terror
In August 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the U.S. government on behalf of al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki. The two organizations q...
Op-eds
DNI Clapper Needs to Know
Little did Director of National Intelligence James Clapper know that when he and two of his Obama administration colleagues sat down to discuss the terror threat with ABC’s Diane Sawyer ear...
Op-eds
Anwar al Awlaki’s License to Kill
“Don’t consult with anyone in fighting the Americans; fighting the devil doesn’t require consultation or prayers or seeking divine guidance.” So said Anwar al Awl...
Op-eds
More Rocket, Less Docket
‘We need to bring him to justice as soon as we can.” In a Fox News interview Sunday, that was John Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, talking about Ibrahim...
Op-eds
From Yemen With Malice
We are still learning the details of the terrorist plot to send explosives into the U.S. from Yemen via cargo plane, so it is too early to make a definitive assessment. However, we have enough in...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Troubled by Helen Thomas’s Firing
A few weeks ago, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released the second edition of its online magazine, Inspire. As with the first edition, Inspire seeks to garner new recruits i...