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2011/02/232011/02/23

How Neocon Central Worked for Muammar Qadhafi

Among Libya’s lobbyists Laura Rozen, Politico, 21 February 2011 As several Libyan diplomats Monday denounced their country’s four-decade ruler Col. Muammar Qadhafi for unleashing the army against anti-government protesters, U.S. consultancies that have worked to burnish Libya’s and Qadhafi’s U.S. image were laying low. Several consulting, law and lobbying firms have moved in to advise the …

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2011/02/07

Report Casts Doubt on Taliban’s Ties With Al Qaeda

N.Y.U. Report Casts Doubt on Taliban’s Ties With Al Qaeda By CARLOTTA GALL Published: February 6, 2011 KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan Taliban have been wrongly perceived as close ideological allies of Al Qaeda, and they could be persuaded to renounce the global terrorist group, according to a report to be published Monday by New …

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2011/02/022011/02/02

‘Al-Qaida nuclear bomb’ + Egypt Push-Back

‘Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb’ By Heidi Blake and Christopher Hope, The Daily Telegraph February 1, 2011 Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons after sourcing nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build “dirty” bombs, according to leaked diplomatic documents. A leading atomic regulator has privately warned that the world …

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2010/12/232010/12/23

Reference: The Other Face of Al Qaeda by Camile Tawil

The author is a Lebanese journalist who is very well informed and knows many jihadists on a personal basis. He presents a view on AQ in the period just before 9/11 and its early aftermath.

2010/12/102010/12/10

Journal: Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists, Internal Al Qaeda Critiques

Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists by Angel Rabasa, Stacie Pettyjohn, Jeremy Ghez, Christopher Boucek RAND Monograph 2010 242 Pages Free Online or $26 Proactive measures to prevent vulnerable individuals from radicalizing and to rehabilitate those who have already embraced extremism have been implemented, to varying degrees, in several Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and European countries. A key …

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2010/12/10

Event: 16 Dec 2010 0930-1100 DC New America Foundation Self Inflicted Wound–Debates and Divisions Within al-Qa’ida and its Periphery

Self-Inflicted Wounds Debates and Divisions Within al-Qa’ida and its Periphery Please join the New America Foundation National Security Studies Program for the release and discussion of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point’s new report, Self-Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qa’ida and its Periphery, which explores the disagreements and internal tensions that weaken the …

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2010/12/102010/12/10

NIGHTWATCH Extract: Iraq Takes Down Al Qaeda Global Web Site

Iraq: For the record. The Iraqi Defense Ministry disabled al Qaida’s “biggest electronic website,” a spokesman for the ministry said on 9 December. The Iraqi army discovered the location of Al-Furqan website and seized its devices and equipment, the spokesman said. He said Arabs operated the website, which Iraq considers al Qaida’s ministry of information …

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