al qaeda
A Tale Of Two Paragraphs That Sum Up The Bush Administration
Both of them are from an Agence France-Press write-up of an interview with Secretary of State and worst-national-security-adviser-of-all-time Condoleezza Rice. First:
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged Monday that the Bush administration fell short of goals it had set for itself but maintained that history would prove it right.
Second:
The war on terror has failed to [...]
Save Some Shoes to Throw at Ayman al-Zawahiri
Last seen issuing racial epithets at Barack Obama in order to preserve Al Qaeda’s crumbling narrative, Ayman al-Zawahiri is under attack from a former jihadist theoretician. It’s pretty brutal:
Even More Total Insanity from Guantanamo Today
As if the news that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his four co-defendents pleaded guilty to the 9/11 attacks wasn’t wild enough, now it appears that they’ve suspended entering that plea. According to an ACLU press release fresh to my inbox, after the presiding judge, Army Col. Steven Henley, questioned the competency of two of the [...]
Will SCOTUS Really Hear the Al-Marri Case? Not so fast…
By now you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case of the sole legal U.S. resident detained indefinitely — yes, that means potentially forever — without charges, right here on U.S. soil. All because President Bush decided on his own authority, that this 28-year-old father of five, who was then [...]
U.S. Suppresses Torture Testimony at Terror Trials
Hey, this is going to come as a big shock, but it turns out that some Guantanamo Bay prisoners on trial for plotting Sept. 11 are actually claiming they’ve been tortured in prison.
What, you already knew that? Well, yeah, just about everyone else in the world did, too. Still, the U.S. government, when [...]
NYT’s Mahler Misses the Mark
In the NY Times Week in Review on Sunday, Jonathan Mahler opens his piece about “How to Define Terror” with the story of Salim Hamdan, former driver for Osama bin Laden, who was shipped back to Yemen last week after being acquitted of most of the charges brought against him by the US military commissions [...]
Car Bomb Detonates Outside U.S. Embassy in Kabul
Worth keeping in mind for for this morning’s rollout of President-elect Obama’s national security team:
Progressive Counterterrorism, Cont’d: Omnibus Edition
Progressive counterterrorism perspectives are like Frito-Lays products to me. Why stop? Here are some interesting ideas emailed to me by some of your favorite bloggers.
The Seminal’s Alex Thurston:
More From the Progressive Counterterrorism Files: Brandon Friedman
In addition to Moira Whelan, here’s Brandon Friedman of VoteVets, an Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, on the components of a progressive counterterrorism agenda. Taking what he calls a “long-term” view, Brandon is kicking around an idea for “an ROTC-like program throughout colleges and universities for the intelligence sector and State Department,” in order [...]
Habeas-Case Defendents Ordered Released From Guantanamo
Wow. A federal judge has ordered the release of five of six Algerian enemy-combatant defendants from Guantanamo Bay — including Lakhdar Boumediene himself, the man whose case prompted the Supreme Court last year to rule that there could be no suspension of habeas corpus in terrorism cases.
There’s going to be more to this than my [...]
