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Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (with numerous variations; , Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʾAwaḍ bin Lādin) (born 10 March 1957) is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the alleged founding leader of the organization al-Qaeda. Read More»From Wikipedia |
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The Chicago terror case: the Bollywood connection, Al Qaeda videos, and a look at jihadi life in Wazirstan
The newly discovered links between a Chicago area terror suspect and last year’s deadly Mumbai attacks have triggered front page headlines in India, including a rash of speculation about an alleged “Bollywood” connection. A ccording to an FBI affidavit, David Coleman Headley, the son of a former Pakistani diplomat accused of plotting terror attacks in Denmark, was in regular communication since early 2008 with an operative of Lashkar e Taiba, the Pakistani terror group suspected of orchestrating last year’s Mumbai massacre.
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The Domestic Terror Threat
Why recent events point to a potentially worrying radicalization of disaffected American Muslims.
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As New York Anticipates Trying 9/11 Suspects, a New Report Condemns U.K. Prisons for Security Lapses
Two internationally prominent apostles of violent jihad, one of whom has been awaiting extradition to the U.S. for a decade, have been able to issue proclamations and exhortations supporting Al Qaeda even though they are locked up in one of Britain's most secure prisons, a new report by a British
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11/04/2009BlogsICBMs Without Nukes: USA's Best New Weapon?
…U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from the Arabian Sea reached an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden had left, according to Richard Clarke, the top counterterrorism adviser to President Bill Clinton at the time …
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10/31/2009Letters to the EditorLetters: 'Yes He Can (But He Sure Hasn't Yet)'
…indirect contact between alleged terrorist Najibullah Zazi and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a veteran Egyptian jihadist and Osama bin Laden associate (NEWSWEEK's sources could not confirm the link). We subsequently learned that, after our print deadline …
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10/27/2009BlogsU.S. Increases Drone Use in Pakistan
…drone aircraft more than 10 years ago to try to track Osama bin Laden and his cohort through the wilds of Afghanistan. Initially ……security officials, who had become concerned about bin Laden 's increasingly aggressive actions toward U.S …
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10/21/2009InternationalPakistan’s Second Front
…a covert war in Indian-held Kashmir, and during its initial days it received generous financial assistance from Osama bin Laden . Today the U.S. considers JeM a terrorist organization. For its recent attack, JeM recruited others, like Hizbul …
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10/19/2009BlogsJohn Edwards's Poll Numbers Tank. But, Rest Easy, He's No Bin Laden
…analysis ever, Gallup notes Edwards isn’t quite the most “reviled” person in America—not yet anyway. Osama Bin Laden ’s unfavorable rating is way worse: 97 percent. So is Fidel Castro’s, who once measured in at 83 percent …
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