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The 5 ages of Al Qaeda
…is an excellent pictorial article in the Guardian co-authored by the insightful Jason Burke who is, as far as I am concerned, far and away the world’s leading expert on Al Qaeda. His book ‘Al Qaeda –...
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Lynch on OBL’s latest video
Marc Lynch has some interesting things to note about Bin Laden’s recent video. 1) It is quite hard to get hold of a copy: are Al Qaeda having issues with their “distribution mechanisms” 2) There are no...
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The Yemen debacle spills over
(Abdullah Asiri: the bum bomber [what an ignominious failure…]) You will not find a better or more knowledgeable article tying together the recent assassination attempt in Saudi Arabia (the bum bomb)...
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Plotting the trajectory of airline terrorism
This article appeared in The Daily News Egypt on the 29/12/2009. … The terrorist who attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day did so with 80g of...
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‘Strip search all 18-28 year old Muslim men’
…is what retired Lt. General Thomas McInerey thinks should happen at US airports. He said this during an interview on – quelle surprise – Fox News. Though, in fairness, the presenter did then retort...
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From bum bomb to body bomb?
Fears have been raised of a new generation of suicide bombers secreting explosives inside their bodies to evade airport security. This story appeared in the Daily Mail (a.k.a the Daily Fear), a...
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Student arrested for reading Arabic flashcards on plane
US authorities have arrested a student at Philadelphia International Airport for reading his Arabic flashcards on a plane. He was arrested and ‘aggressively’ questioned for two hours without being...
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Muslim scholar condemns terrorism
The BBC wesbite has a list of the articles from its website that have been shared the most i.e emailed from one person to the next. At 6:00AM GMT on the 3rd March 2010 the number one most sent article...
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The ugly face of terrorism??
There’s an article in Sharq Al Awsat titled ‘The Ugly Face of Terrorism‘. What sort of a title is that? Such a title absurdly insinuates that there is a ‘pretty’ side to terrorism. The article itself...
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Qatar Just Isn’t That Evil
The following article was published by the New America Institute and by Vox under a different title. … Cutting deals with the enemy is a part of American – and Western – history. America has negotiated...
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