Joe Conason does a service by reminding us just why there is still any issue of Afghanistan at all : It would be much less fair, however, to ignore the events that led us to this moment, when whatever choice he makes will offer no great guarantee of progress and no small prospect of trouble. Those events began with the inexplicable decision by officials of the previous administration to allow Osama...
Chief Iraqi Prosecutor In Sadam's Trial, Jaafar al-Moussawi Says There Was Documentary Evidence That Proved Existance Of Strong Relationship (Strengthened by Saudi Royal Family) Between Sadam, Osama bin Laden, and al-Zawahiri... ANYONE SPEAK ARABIC? From Weasel Zippers: Google translate : Revealed the former president of the prosecution in the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal and a member of the Iraqi...
Well my respect for MacArthur genius award winners just took a big hit. Tina Brown's Daily Beast claims to have gotten some people they thought were smart - who seemed to be mostly academic politicians and media celebrities - to nominate 100 plus people for the category of smartest of the decade. Next they found 40 MacA awardees who had nothing better to do than read their resumes and rank them, resulting...
Al-Qaida group suspected of kidnapping two men and a woman from Spanish NGO travelling in convoy Spain's foreign ministry today confirmed that three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania, probably by a group affiliated to al-Qaida that has been targeting westerners in recent years. The two men and a woman from a Spanish NGO, Barcelona Acción Solidaria, were taken yesterday when...
Gordon Brown : "We've got to ask ourselves why, eight years after September the 11th, nobody has been able to spot or detain or get close to Osama bin Laden, nobody's been able to get close to Zawahiri, the number two in al-Qaeda." Yes, we should ask the question. And then note the very obvious answer. Which is that both Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri aren't going to be advertising...
Times: Gordon Brown told Pakistan to “take out” Osama bin Laden yesterday as Western frustration at its failure to capture the al-Qaeda leader burst into the public glare. With America and Britain seeking support for their decisions in the next two days to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, Mr Brown told the Pakistani leadership that it had not done enough to catch the men...
The Prime Minister said the al-Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are living in the Islamic state and its security services must hunt them down.
• UK deployment to increase to 9,500 • PM airs frustration with Pakistan's efforts Gordon Brown will announce tomorrow that he is sending more British troops to Afghanistan, pre-empting a long-awaited statement from Barack Obama expected on Tuesday. According to reports in Washington, Obama will announce that 9,000 marines will be sent to Helmand province within days, and the prime minister...
PM questions why no one seems to know whereabouts of al-Qaida chiefs Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri Gordon Brown today criticised Pakistan 's record on fighting terrorism and called on the country's political and military leaders to do more to find Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders. "We've got to ask the Pakistan authorities, security services, army and politicians to join us...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Pakistan on Sunday to step up its action against Al-Qaeda and hunt down leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Pakistan on Sunday to step up its action against Al-Qaeda and hunt down leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. "We have got to ask the Pakistani security forces, army and politicians to join us in the major effort that the world is committing resources to, not only to isolate Al-Qaeda but to break them in Pakistan," Brown told BBC television....
In a new interview Mulla Krekar says that he wishes Osama bin Laden and other radical Islamist leaders will be heads of an Islamic super-state. "The Muslims will become like the Jews in Europe, right until they establish a caliphate [ed: Islamic state]. Without a state we have no value," says mulla Krekar in a new interview with the al-Hiwar TV channel. The interview was broadcast on the...
Norway: Muslims need a state of their own, says Krekar Interestingly enough, in his book Krekar, who considers himself a true Muslim scholar, is very dismissive of Osama bin Laden and most other 'leaders' whom he thinks do not really know Islamic law. And yet, here he suggest Bin Laden as the next Caliph [ie, Mohammed's stand-in]. The entire interview is available on YouTube (in Arabic). -----------...
Azaz Syed | Islamabad | November 24 Dawn - After fighting a bloody war in Afghanistan for more than eight years, the United States appears to have undertaken a re-think of its policy and has started engaging the Taliban in negotiations through Saudi and Pakistani intelligence agencies, highly-placed sources told Dawn here on Monday. ‘We have started ‘engagement’ with the Afghan Taliban...
So, what do we have hear all of a sudden? Attorney for 9/11 defendants: Yes, they want a platform for propaganda [...] The letter was written to say that the men had no objection to a 60-day continuance in military commission proceedings. But the three men used it to condemn the United States' military presence in Muslim countries and its support for Israel, a preview of the kind of thing they might...
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