Category: Terrorism
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CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
Hardly surprising but doesn’t help much: The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement. The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four…
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Rory Carroll
Rory Carroll missing in Baghdad? I hope he will be ok.
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US 'intercepts al-Qaeda letter'
A very curious letter, if it proves to be authentic. In the missive, Zawahiri apparently warns tactics such as the killing of hostages and bombings of mosques may alienate the “Muslim masses,” Mr Whitman said. “In this letter, he talks about believing that the eventual governance of Iraq must include the Muslim masses, and that…
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Are you a bored web techie? Join al-Qaeda
Tongue in cheek el Reg reports on news that Islamic websites are advertising for jobs: According to Reuters, the fun-loving organisation has published web adverts “asking for supporters to help put together its Web statements and video montages”, or more precisely, it has “vacant positions for video production and editing statements, footage and international media…
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Empty beds, empty stomachs
Gitmo, as it has become known, still remains in a sort legal limbo. I had wondered what had happened since the Supreme Court ruling in June last year, the Economist clarifies: Earlier this summer, there was talk of Guantánamo being shut down. Patrick Leahy, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called it a…
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Conference posting
I am at the Hilton in Washington now, and hope to live blog at least some of this event. It is also being webcast for those of you interested in watching it. It is also available on C-Span. Oh I just spotted Philip Bobbitt! Am I the only one who looks at professors and thinks…
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Rockets hit Red Sea ports; 1 dead
It looks like an unsuccessful attack, but interesting in that in this region it was unexpected. The ships were in port so sailors could train with regional partners, U.S. Navy Commander Jeff Breslau told CNN. “It’s very unusual for U.S. ships to be under attack in this part of the region.”
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Saleh Mohammed al-Aoofi killed in Saudi?
Apparently some high up militants were killed in Saudi: Saleh Mohammed al-Aoofi was among six al-Qaeda linked militants said to be killed during police raids on several locations in two Saudi cities, Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki told The Associated Press. …al-Aoofi reportedly fought in Chechnya and travelled to Afghanistan where he joined al-Qaeda shortly…
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The New al-Qaeda
Watching the last in the series, fascinating documentary.
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Inside the sect that loves terror
The Times had a reporter inside a group calling itself the ‘Saviour Sect’…The full piece can be read here. A Sunday Times reporter spent two months as a recruit inside the Saviour Sect to reveal for the first time how the extremist group promotes hatred of ânon-believersâ? and encourages its followers to commit acts of…