How To Use al-Qaeda In A Sentence
- Pakistan, with its “Islamic” nuclear bomb, Taliban - and al-Qaeda-infested northwestern borderlands, dysfunctional cities, and territorially based ethnic groups for whom Islam could never provide adequate glue, is commonly referred to as the most dangerous country in the world, a nuclear Yugoslavia-in-the-making. Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
- With the help of these so-called "cleanskins," who are difficult for Western security services to detect, al-Qaeda's opportunistic, pragmatic leadership has embraced urban warfare of the sort pioneered by terrorists decades ago: low-intensity, IRA-style operations in densely populated areas, using both conventional military weapons (such as assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades) and standard terrorist weapons (such as improvised explosive devices). Al-Qaeda's new strategy: Less apocalypse, more street fighting
- The way this administration reasons, hummus is “related to al-Qaeda”. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Baby Steps To Authoritarianism
- But on a single day recently al-Qaeda was able to launch 42 attacks across the country.
- But in the years since, the Taliban has reasserted itself and al-Qaeda has managed to operate from havens in neighboring Pakistan.al-Qaeda affiliates have emerged in Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere. Panetta: U.S. within reach of defeating al-Qaeda
- Moreover, on at least one occasion the Bush administration refused to do what Pakistan would not: In 2005 Donald Rumsfeld nixed a proposed attack on a meeting of al-Qaeda leaders in the tribal region—a group thought to include Ayman al-Zawahiri—in part because the operation, which would have involved more than a hundred Special Forces and CIA personnel, could have destabilized Musharraf. The Longest War
- Ibrahim al-Shammari told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the Islamic Army in Iraq had decided to disunite from al-Qaeda in Iraq after its members were threatened. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraqi group 'splits' from al-Qaeda
- Gingrich's attempt to hold Muslims collectively accountable for the actions of a relative handful of extremists doesn't simply reinforce al-Qaeda's narrative that America is at war with Islam as a whole; it skirts dangerously close to accepting the terrorist-friendly premise that "innocents" as we generally understand the term don't actually exist. News & Politics
- Ali Soufan, left, one of the few Arabic-speaking agents at the FBI before 9/11, was able to solicit a great deal of uncoerced information from al-Qaeda insiders. The Longest War
- That was part of what I believe was a grand bargain, struck between the Bush administration and the mullahs of Iran, that freed up US troops to crush Al-Qaeda.
