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2010/11/302010/11/30

Reference: WikiLeaks and Al Qaeda as Open Source Insurgencies

Journal: The Security and Secrecy “Tax” – Global Guerrillas By John Robb at Global Guerrillas (Networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures) Wikileaks and Al Qaeda’s Open Source Jihad are both open source insurgencies. While there are obvious differences between the two, what’s more interesting …

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2010/11/112010/11/11

Reference: Al-Qaeda Statements Index

This paper is written in correlation with a project that aims to provide a distinctly new perspective to current trends in terrorism research by allowing for a new and more nuanced study of statements made by al-Qaeda. This project, the Al-Qaeda Statements Index (AQSI) database project at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, is one example of …

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2010/07/112010/09/02

Reference: Al Qaeda’s Strategic Failures

Al Qaeda’s Strategic Failures Thomas McCabe Parameters Spring 2010 Phi Beta Iota: Just as the US Army Strategic Studies Institute found that the hollowness and ineffectiveness of the Iraqi “army” was the single most important factor in enabling the decisive rapid “victory” of the US forces in Gulf I and Gulf II, it is important …

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2010/02/202010/02/20

Search: how much is al-qaeda worth?

Very cool question. We don’t have the answers, but here are a few thoughts. Who benefits? There is only one beneficiary of Al Qaeda as a virtual actor: the US Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Congressional Complex whose outrageously wasteful funding and excessive (70%) obligations to contractors are bankrupting the US economy, but who cares as long as the corporate …

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2010/01/202010/09/02

Journal: Al Qaeda, Yemen, Somalia, and USG

Welcome to Qaedastan: Yemen’s coming explosion will make today’s problems seem tame. Yemen has so many dire problems that it’s easy to be overwhelmed. Al Qaeda is growing in prominence, a Shiite rebellion is expanding in the north, and the threat of secession is renewed in the south. There’s a brewing fight over what comes …

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2010/01/102010/01/10

Journal: What Al Qaeda Et Al Can and Cannot Do

The Meaning Of Al Qaeda’s Double Agent: The jihadists are showing impressive counterintelligence ability that the CIA seems to have underestimated. Wall Street Journal Reuel Marc Gerecht January 8, 2010 [safety copy of entire piece below the fold] Amid the Hysteria, A Look at What al-Qaeda Can’t Do TIME Magazine By Peter Beinart Monday, Jan. 18, …

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2009/12/31

Journal: Walking Into Al Qaeda’s Trap in Yemen

Very important article from one of the very best reporters covering the Middle East Walking Into the Al-Qaeda Trap Touch Yemen, Get Burned By PATRICK COCKBURN December 31, 2009 Skip to End of Article: It is extraordinary to see the US begin to make the same mistakes in Yemen as it previously made in Afghanistan …

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