Top 10 Observations Offered About Afghanistan War Strategy Speech

" Following President Barack Obama’s a war strategy speech Tuesday night, myriad observations surfaced about the way forward for the United States military in Afghanistan.  Below are my Top Ten observations about that speech: 1) It took three months for President Obama...

al-Qaeda's on the web

Al-Qaeda has intensified it's indoctrination to the offspring of  Muslims migrants in the west. This of course is to incite terrorism and create a 5 column within the homelands of what it see's being the...

Pakistan must help break al-Qaeda, says Brown

"Gordon Brown has told the BBC that Pakistan must do more to "break" al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden. Questions must be asked about why nobody had been able "to spot or detain or get close to" the al-Qaeda leader, the prime minister said. " I really cannot help but find it...

Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells

This is mainly due to the fact that locally employed embassy staff can not be trusted and that embassies lack the numbers of British citizens to check documentation. In the Philippines for an example office staff...

Obama says he wants to 'finish the job' in Afghanistan

I have noted that new equipment has been deployed to the battle front, that the armed forces have been sent much better equipment more suitable to the terrain. The pause has been set up so Obama can not only...

Avoid Traveling to Pakistan: Home Ministry (India)

The Home Ministry under the Government of India (GoI) on Tuesday advised Indian pilgrims to avoid visiting Pakistan in view of deteriorating security situation there following a string of militant attacks on...

Al-Qaeda Threatens Oktoberfest

Bavarian police have arrested two Islamic extremists in Munich, leading to an increase in security at the ongoing Oktoberfest. Flights are banned from entering the air space above the festival, and vehicles are not...

New Bin Laden Tape Calls Obama Powerless to Stop Afghanistan War

Osama Bin Laden was last heard in June talking about President Obama planting a seed of "hate and revenge" towards the United States in the Muslim world. In the meantime the Al-Riydha newspaper announced that Bin...

Al-Qaeda offers US conditional peace

Is this a war against US or hypocrisy? "Al-Qaeda has offered the US President Barack Obama a truce in exchange for a complete withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan. Ayman al Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number...

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali: Life Sentence For Bush Assassination Plot

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 28-year-old American who is a member of al-Qaeda, was sentenced to life today, July 27, 2009, for his plot to assassinate George W. Bush. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali first came under the radar of the U.S. government in 2003, when he was studying in Saudi Arabia...

Let’s get it straight al-Qaeda is not the Taliban USA!

Bin Laden had joined the hill tribesmen in a war against the Russians the al-Qaeda movement however has no true relationship to the religious fanatical Taliban other than being funded from Saudi Arabia by...

Bin Laden son killed in US drone attack

Pakistan is likely to come under increased pressure of the Obama administration after Saad bin Laden, a son of the world's most wanted terrorist was killed in a CIA operation. According to informed sources in...

DIVERGENCES

Yesterdays New York Times has a story that hints at divergences between the US and Pakistan in the war on terror in Afghanistan. Unnamed Pakistani intelligence officials are reported as having said that Pakistan had concerns that the US operational surge in Afghanistan could...

Jakarta Indonesia Explosion Video Surfaces

CCTV footage from the lobby of Jakarta, Indonesia's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, showing one of the suspected bombers, was aired on several local television stations before getting picked up by western outlets. The footage...

Jakarta Ritz-Carlton and Marriott Hotels Rocked by Explosions

There are multiple reports that at least two busy hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, the Jakarta Marriott and the Jakarta Ritz-Carlton, have been rocked by explosions, killing at least 9 people according to Indonesia's...

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