Zacarias Moussaoui

April 12, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban pushes Osama bin Laden truther conspiracy theories

The Taliban promoted two conspiracy theories related to Al Qaeda founder and its first emir, Osama bin Laden. The Taliban denied he was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. and questioned...

April 14, 2014 | Bill Roggio

Assessing Terrorism in the Caucasus and the Threat to the Homeland

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September 20, 2012 | Clifford D. May

Misunderstanding 9/11

Learning the wrong lessons can be costly.

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

The CIA Interrogation Tapes

Remember when this was a real war?

June 10, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

A Bug’s Life

Six years after the terrorist atrocities of 9/11/01, 15 years after the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, 25 years after the bombing of the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut,...

February 16, 2011 |

The Patriot Act and the Tea Party

 Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve been on the road for most of the last 10 days.  It’s old news at this point that a defection by several Tea Party Republicans to...

November 17, 2010 |

From Al Qaeda Recruit to Millionaire?

Is the British government preparing to make one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s alleged co-conspirators a millionaire? The Washington Post reports on the British payouts to former Gitmo detaine...

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...

May 10, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

Civilian Trial For 9/11 Suspects Should Be Off The Table

Holding such a trial would not only put classified information at risk but also put a dozen unlucky jurors potentially in harm's

May 29, 2009 |

Wrong Then, Wrong Now

Wrong Then, Wrong Now The Obama administration is repeating Clinton's national-security errors. On Thursday, Josh Meyer of the Los Angeles Times broke the story that the FBI...

April 23, 2009 | Clifford D. May

Shock Therapy

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind behind the terrorist atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001. If U.S. intelligence operatives had spotted him in a remote area of Pakistan and killed him with a Pre...

September 20, 2006 | OpinionJournal.com

The Intelligence Mess

(Editor's note: This article first appeared in April 2004.) Intelligence-gathering is something of a square peg in the round hole of contemporary political morality. It is about unearthing t...

May 5, 2006 | Wall Street Journal

This Is No Way to Fight a War

A signal moment of clarity pierced through the devastation of September 11, 2001. An eight-year jihadist campaign, culminating in a morning of carnage more massive than Pearl Harbor, finally conv...

September 21, 2005 | Clifford D. May

Profiles and Courage

I'm writing this on my laptop in the Atlanta airport, waiting for a flight delayed due to weather. But I can't complain. I didn't spend long at the security check. On the other han...

October 4, 2004 |

Shoe Bomber 2.0; The Justice Department Indicts Richard Reid’s Accomplice

John Ashcroft reminded Americans Monday of how effective the government's post-9/11 effort to thwart Islamic militancy has been, announcing the indictment of a second conspirator in the most...

July 27, 2004 |

Stupid Intelligence

Building a better mousetrap is hard. Building a better bureaucracy is harder. What the 9/11 commission found most lacking in the U.S. intelligence community was not energy or dedication,...

June 4, 2003 | Clifford D. May

The Anti-anti-terrorism Campaign

The Battle of Iraq may be over, but the Battle over Iraq has just begun. An odd assortment of Blame-America-Firsters, Bush-bashers, Saddam apologists and Appeasement Activists have launc...