Posted in Daniel Byman, Yemen, Adam Garfinkle, Bernard Haykel, Terrorism, Qaeda on May 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Daniel Byman
The Washington Post’s reporting on the weekend that “all the defendants convicted in the [2000] attack [on the USS Cole] have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials” will hardly surprise anyone watching how Yemen has handled the issue of terrorism since 9/11. While Yemeni security forces have at times made […]
Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Terrorism, Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
A new article by Thomas Hegghammer in the Times Literary Supplement, entitled “Jihadi studies: the obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better,” lives up to its title—not so much by delineating what these obstacles are, but rather by being representative of them. Regrettably, the author evokes the same […]
Posted in Hezbollah, Daniel Byman, Nuclear, Qaeda, Pakistan, Iran on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
From Daniel Byman
U.S. and world attention is focused understandably on the Iranian nuclear program. The list of reasons to worry about an Iranian bomb is exceptionally long and, for the most part, legitimate.
Posted in Matthew Levitt, Daniel Byman, Terrorism, Qaeda, Martin Kramer, Afghanistan on Mar 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Matthew Levitt
Fifteen years from now, when classified documents produced today begin to be declassified, we will surely look back with some discomfort and see just how far off some of our judgments were when written in 2008. Such is the nature of intelligence assessments. What would be worse, however, would be for us to […]
Posted in Daniel Byman, Counterinsurgency, Terrorism, Qaeda, Iraq on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
From Daniel Byman
While it is far too early to say that the United States and its allies have permanently “crippled” Al Qaeda in Iraq (as claimed by some U.S. officials), clearly the terrorist organization has suffered grievous blows in the last year. Indeed, U.S. officials are so pleased they hope to use the “Anbar model” […]
Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Michael Horowitz, Adam Garfinkle, Terminology, Terrorism, Qaeda on Feb 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Assaf Moghadam
In recent years, a growing number of analysts and policymakers, have referred to the doctrines guiding Al Qaeda and its associates as an ideology, and appear to have influenced the Bush administration into adopting the term as well. President Bush, for example, has characterized the 9/11 suicide hijackers as men who “kill in […]
Posted in Walter Laqueur, Islamism, Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim on Feb 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
From Raymond Ibrahim
Will the recent killing in Pakistan of “senior” Al Qaeda leader, Abu Laith al-Libi, have any tangible effects on the “war on terror”? Considering the headline news coverage, one might assume so. In fact, whenever any major Al Qaeda operative or leader is slain, the media is abuzz with it, implying that we […]
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