The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Aki Peritz and Eric Rosenbach Ways of making men talk Alan Judd Spectator (UK) Book Club, 24 March 2012 Eric Rosenbach is a former academic who is now deputy assistant secretary of defence in Washington. Aki Peritz used to work for the CIA and now advises the Third Way think tank. Their book, therefore, is …
Ten Years Later: Insights on al-Qaeda’s Past & Future through Captured Records: A Conference Report January 27, 2012 By Joseph J. Simons, Adjunct, CRRC PDF 9 Pages
Al Qaeda in Iran Why Tehran is Accommodating the Terrorist Group Seth G. Jones Foreign Affairs, January 29, 2012 Article Summary and Author Biography Phi Beta Iota: There are two competing narratives, neither of which is properly researched and documented. Narrative A (our tentative preference) has all of these Al Qaeda stories as part of …
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Kandahar audiocassette collection A collection of more than 1500 audiocassettes from Kandahar. The collection is central to understanding al-Qaida’s emergence as an organisation before 9/11. A first inventarisation and description can be found in: Flagg Miller. Insight from Bin Laden’s audiocassette library in Kandahar. CTC Sentinel, 4(10), October 2011. An analysis of Flag Miler can …
From the underpants bomber to exploding print cartridges to ricin bombs… Qaeda Trying to Harness Toxin for Bombs, U.S. Officials Fear By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER The New York Times, August 12, 2011 WASHINGTON — American counterterrorism officials are increasingly concerned that the most dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda is trying to produce …
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This would be a comic farce if it were not the largest sinkhole for money in the US arsenal of fraud. Change in people,no change in rhetoric…… Panetta says U.S. is ‘within reach’ of defeating Al Qaeda The new defense chief says intelligence uncovered in the Bin Laden raid showed that 10 years of U.S. …
It is apparent that there is a limited view of what is really going on in the MENA arena. Zawahri is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, who is beginning to appear to be the real underlying role player in the so called “Arab Spring” that most American policy makers (read the Administration) believe want democracy. …
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