Voices Is David Cameron planning to include al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra in his group of ‘70,000 moderates?’ If he was, Nusra men are likely to prove very expensive ‘ground troops’ for the RAF and its two Tornados if they bomb Syria Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices 14 comments The former wife […]
Huff Post: by David Schanzer— Our ultimate goal should be to make clear this conflict is a battle between civilized people of all faiths and the terrorists — not between Muslims and the West. So, when I talk about al Qaeda and terrorist violence, I say: “The 9/11 attacks were […]
Anthony W. Orlando HUFFINGTON POST Lecturer in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Los Angeles Barack Obama is daring the terrorists. He’s standing in their front yard. He’s calling them out. Of course, that’s not how it’s reported. “U.S. ‘nowhere near’ decision to pull all troops […]
by Seymour M. Hersh You are invited to read this free essay from the London Review of Books. Subscribe now to access every article from every fortnightly issue of the London Review of Books, including the entire LRB archive of over 12,500 essays and reviews. Barack Obama did not tell […]
CNN: by Nick Paton Walsh, Raja Razek, Gul Tuysuz – Gaziantep, Turkey (CNN) — Raqqa was, a matter of months ago, one of Syria’s most liberal cities. Now locals call it Tora Bora. They say it’s as if the Taliban of Afghanistan have taken over. After months of bombardment by the […]
Mar 7, 2013 – 18:42 By Mark Hosenball and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on Thursday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after U.S. government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to New […]
Sky’s Stuart Ramsay meets an increasingly influential group which says jihad is spreading and will not stop at Syria. By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent The number of Jihadist groups flooding […]
By AFP NAIROBI Once his reputation was of a feared fighter, an American-born extremist who left small town of Alabama to wage war alongside Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamists and who called […]
Robert Fisk on what he really means in the ‘war on terror’ “Had he his hurts before?” Siward asks of his slain son in Macbeth. He wants to know if […]
For the Salafists, a Muslim shrine is a rival to God as surely as Henry VIII saw the monasteries as a Papal rival by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK “Then […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Jan 30, 2013 – 11:00 Switzerland is trying to leverage its 35-year history in Mali, a priority country for Swiss development aid, to mediate between the […]
A Polish investigation into secret CIA jails is being suppressed because it will embarrass the top echelon of the country’s government, lawyers of two men held illegally in one of […]
Express Tribune: Terrorism after Bilour’s death by Khaled Ahmad and comments by Abdul Alim The Taliban have killed Bashir Bilour, one of the top leaders of the ANP in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. In the aftermath, ANP leaders have said some bitter things about how Pakistan interprets terrorism in the country. They insist that it […]
The United States Army will be deploying troops to nearly three-dozen African nations in the coming year. Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as […]
By Fareed Zakaria The Daily Star, Lebanon STORY SUMMARY For 11 years, the United States has been operating under emergency wartime powers granted under the 2001 “Authorization for Use of Military Force”. It grants the president and the federal government extraordinary authorities at home and abroad, effectively suspends civil liberties […]
EDITH M. LEDERER | ARABNEWS Tuesday 11 December 2012 UNITED NATIONS: France circulated a UN Security Council resolution Monday that would authorize the deployment of an African-led force to oust […]
BEIRUT: A group of extremist Islamist factions in Syria has rejected the country’s new opposition coalition, saying in a video statement they have formed an “Islamic state” in the embattled city of Aleppo to underline that they want nothing to do with the Western-backed bloc. The video appears to be […]
by Taylor Luck | Nov 11, 2012 | 22:48 AMMAN — A Jordanian jihadist has been killed in southern Syria, to Islamist sources, as the government reportedly increased security along the northern border to curb the rising flow of Islamist militants. The local jihadist movement said 37-year-old Amad Natour was […]
By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon In the year since Osama bin Laden’s death, it has been a comforting thought for Westerners to say that he failed. And that’s certainly true in terms of Al-Qaeda, whose scorched-earth jihad tactics alienated Muslims along with everyone else. But in terms of […]
By Michael Young The Daily Star, Lebanon It is unfortunate that among those most anxiously observing the uprising in Syria (and not only Syria) have been members of the Middle East’s religious and ethnic minorities. Indeed, Syria’s Alawite leadership is perpetrating a butchery partly because it expects its community to […]