Posts Tagged ‘Al Qaeda’
Tangoing with the Taliban
Aljazeera | By Marwan Bishara | 2 February 2010 Despite the US military 'surge', Afghanistan is proving more challenging than Iraq. Unlike the general Iraqi distaste and hostility for al-Qaeda's methods and objectives, Osama bin Laden's network remains the Taliban's most potent strategic partner in its fight against the central government and [...]
Pakistan Will Assist in “Reconciling” Afghan-Taleban to Karzai Government
Times | By Deborah Haynes | 25 January 2010 General David Petraeus: full transcript of interview with The Times Afghanistan It seems that the Pakistanis are talking at all levels to Afghan Taleban and President Karzai will be announcing this reconciliation plan for low to mid-level Taleban... It is really reintegration to be [...]
Abdul Basit Usman: Not one of us, but we do not cheer the death of anyone — MILF
Luwaran | 23 January 2010 Terror suspect Basset Usman really dead? MILF does not rejoice at people’s death January 23, 2010 - The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has first heard of a news of Abdulbasset Usman’s death from the Associated Press report published in Pakistan on January 21, when one of the local papers carried a news item [...]
Is Afghanistan Worth it?
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 20 January 2010 Why should the international community be spending two hundred and fifty billion dollars of its taxpayers’ hard-earned money to perform state-building in Afghanistan when this country now produces 40 times more heroin than ten years ago and when corruption accounts for 2.5 billion [...]
Yemeni Scholars Foresee U.S. Occupation
Antiwar Newswire | 11 January 2010 Yemeni radical cleric warns of foreign occupation Yemen's most powerful radical cleric warns terror fight could lead to foreign 'occupation' Yemen's most influential Islamic cleric, considered an al-Qaida-linked terrorist by the United States, warned Monday that the U.S.-backed fight against the terror [...]
Drones for Afghanistan Fuel Export Boom in Israel
Ares | By Robert Wall | 13 January 2010 Afghanistan Becomes Heaven for Heron The Israeli unmanned aircraft industry owes a collective thank you to the Taliban and Al Qaeda -- or maybe NATO -- since there appears to be no end in sight in the demand for Israeli made UAVs to support operations in Afghanistan. (more...)
Securing Bab al-Mandab: The Raison d’être for the “Yem/Som” War
Global Research | By F. William Engdahl | 5 January 2010 The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled [...]
U.S. sharply steps up military, economic aid to Yemen
Middle East Online | By Lachlan Carmichael | 31 December 2009 WASHINGTON — The United States is sharply increasing military and economic aid to Yemen, as it has been doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to fight a growing threat from Al-Qaeda, officials said Wednesday. The threat has been highlighted by the case of Umar Farouk [...]
American Mujahid Denies Al-Qaeda Involvement in Pakistan Bloodshed
AFP | 12 December 2009 Al-Qaeda 'not behind Pakistan bloodshed': US militant HONG KONG — An American member of Al-Qaeda on Saturday issued a video denying the organisation was behind a recent deadly string of attacks in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians. Adam Gadahn said in a video entitled "The Mujahideen Don't Target [...]
