How a U.S. Citizen Came to Be in America’s Cross Hairs (Published 2013)
WASHINGTON — One morning in late September 2011, a group of American drones took off from an airstrip the C.I.A. had built in the remote southern expanse of Saudi Arabia. The drones crossed the border into Yemen, and were soon hovering over a group of trucks clustered in a desert patch of Jawf Province, a region of the impoverished country once renowned for breeding Arabian horses. A group of men
Obama’s Leadership in War on Al Qaeda - NYTimes.com
President Obama in the Oval Office with Thomas E. Donilon, left, the national security adviser, and John O. Brennan, his top counterterrorism adviser.Credit...Pete Souza/The White House WASHINGTON — This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layo
Underwear bomb plot: British and US intelligence rattled over leaks
Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5. The Guardian has learned from Saudi sources that the agent was not a Saudi national as was widely reported, but a Yemeni. H
Al-Qaeda underwear bomber 'was undercover agent'
Airport security around the world was tightened after the 2009 underwear bomb attempt A would-be suicide attacker in a foiled "underwear bomb" plot was an undercover agent, US officials say. The person dispatched by Yemen-based al-Qaeda to attack a US-bound plane had been recruited to infiltrate the group by Saudi Arabia.
Memories of Bin Laden are fading, but his methods and ideology remain
Muhammad Rifadullah, a 36-year-old shopkeeper standing at a rally of extremist groups in the Pakistani capital, was nothing if not honest. "I am a member of Sipah-e-Sahaba," he said, naming a Pakistani extremist organisation responsible for thousands of sectarian killings, which has been banned for several years. Around him shouts of "death to America" rose into the air. "Anyone who disrespects or
Bin Laden files show al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in close contact
Documents found in the house where Osama bin Laden was killed a year ago show a close working relationship between top al-Qaida leaders and Mullah Omar, the overall commander of the Taliban, including frequent discussions of joint operations against Nato forces in Afghanistan, the Afghan government and targets in Pakistan. The communications show a three-way conversation between Bin Laden, his the
Man arrested at Cairo airport 'not al-Qaeda commander'
Egyptian state media were quick to report on Wednesday that Saif al-Adel had been detained at Cairo International Airport after flying to Egypt from Pakistan via Dubai. Security and airport officials said they had received information about his plans to return to Egypt and hand himself over the authorities. All flights from Asia were monitored as he was expected to come from either Afghanistan or
Al-Qaida leadership almost wiped out in Pakistan, British officials believe
Senior British officials believe that a "last push" in 2012 is likely to definitively destroy al-Qaida's remaining senior leadership in Pakistan, opening a new phase in the battle against Islamist terrorism. So many senior members of the organisation have been killed in an intense campaign of air strikes involving missiles launched from unmanned drones that "only a handful of the key players" rema
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