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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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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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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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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Posted in Articles, Opinions from Pakistan, War on terror
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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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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By Khawaja Khalid Farooq
AFTER 9/11, Pakistan has been beset by the twin menace of radicalisation and terrorism.
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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
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By RAY McGOVERN
John Brennan, President Obama’s chief adviser on counter-terrorism, has again put on public display two Continue reading
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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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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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