Tag: al Qaeda
A “Dirty Bomb” Is Currently al Qaeda’s Favorite Weapon
Denying terrorists access to radiological materials that can be used in a dirty bomb attack - one that could bring western economy to a...
Yemen’s al Qaeda Power Base Alarms the World
The Al Qaeda wing in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing last week of a Northwest Airlines flight. The group, known as Al...
Winning Afghanistan – A Realistic Objective?
Can ISAF forces really 'win the hearts and minds of the Afghans'? The Dutch contingent controlling parts of Uruzgan in central Afghanistan are demonstrating...
Pakistan’s Nukes – Al-Qaeda’s Next Strategic Surprise?
Pakistani leaders had never openly admitted that their Muslim nation actually faces a very serious internal threat from an alliance of joint Jihadi forces...
The Afghan War after Musharraf
Now that Pervez Musharraf has resigned as the president of Pakistan, America’s global war on terror has gotten a bit more difficult. Musharraf was...
Europe First? Al Qaeda Targets New Global Terror Strategy
At the European Security conference in Munich, last February, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told European nations that they were under direct threat from...
Kenya Ethnic Chaos Could Provoke Al Qaeda Comeback
Kenya's sudden spiral into chaos after years being regarded as a regional stability in the turbulent Black African continent, will no doubt strike a...
Bhutto’s Murder Spurs Al Qaeda’s Quest for Islamic Nukes
The assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has thrown Pakistan and its 165 million people into one of the worst crises in its 60-year...
Defeated in Iraq, Al Qaeda Migrates to Maghreb – Next Stop:...
The twin blasts that caused such devastation in Algeria this week posted a grim announcement that an Islamic group, once thought to have been...
ChemBio/Radiological Terror: A Threat Warning from Al Qaeda
On Friday, August 10, US security Authorities were taking extra counterterrorism precautions in response to what they said was an unsubstantiated radiological threat to...
The Zaidi Shi’a in Yemen – Iran’s Next Objective to Reach...
Last week's suicide attack in Yemen, the first of its kind against Western tourists, demonstrated Al-Qaeda ever-present threat in this impoverished nation despite, sofar...
Al Qaeda spurs Gaza carnage to create Hamastan
The present events in the Gaza Strip have to be viewed within a wider context of the Middle East strategic framework, in order to...
Western Iraq – becoming Al Qaeda’s Safe Haven?
On his way to his summit meeting between Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki and King Abdallah II in Amman, last week, President Bush declined to...
