Category Archives: War on terror

Al Qaeda on the up?

Jonathan Power

The two bombs that went off last week in Damascus, killing 55 people suggest that Al Qaeda is out and about, not on the verge of defeat as appeared so after the death of Osama bin Laden.
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The pits of terrorism

Mahir Ali

Given the possible consequences, it would be facetious to suggest there is anything amusing about the latest terrorist plot blamed on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The entity’s focus on fundamental garments is nonetheless bizarre.
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Bottomless pits of terrorism

Mahir Ali

GIVEN the possible consequences, it would be facetious to suggest there is anything amusing about the latest terrorist plot blamed on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
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Osama or no Osama

Aijaz Zaka Syed

It’s been one year since Osama bin Laden was killed in a Hollywood style operation in the picturesque town of Abbottabad. But his shadow still hangs over Pakistan and Afghanistan and the West’s decade-long war though. The man is dead; his oppressive legacy lives on.
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One year after Bin Laden

Areeba Malik

A reporter asked President George W Bush six days after the 9/11 attacks: “Do you want Bin Laden dead?” “There’s an old poster out West, as I recall, that says, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive,’ “ the president answered.
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A national counterterrorism policy

By Khawaja Khalid Farooq

AFTER 9/11, Pakistan has been beset by the twin menace of radicalisation and terrorism.
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Crowing about Bin Laden’s death

By Doyle McManus

Americans are far enough away from it now that they can probably all agree: It was a mistake for former president George W. Bush to land on that aircraft carrier in a flight suit to proclaim “Mission Accomplished”. And not just because the war in Iraq was far from over at that point. Continue reading

The Why of Terrorism

By RAY McGOVERN

John Brennan, President Obama’s chief adviser on counter-terrorism, has again put on public display two Continue reading

The post-Osama terror factory

Jawed Naqvi

I MUST confess I was among the feckless journalists that wouldn’t believe for days after the event a year ago that Osama bin Laden was killed or could be killed without the help of Pakistani intelligence.
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Bin Laden complained of group’s disaster

Osama bin Laden bemoaned “disaster after disaster” inflicted by the US onslaught on Al Qaeda before his death a year ago and even mulled changing his terror group’s name, a top US official said.
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