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New Face Emerges Among Al-Qa’ida Leaders
There’s a new face of al-Qaida. You can see him on videos produced by al-Qaida’s propaganda machine. More importantly, he...
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Al-Qaida and the Taliban: Knowing Your Enemy
WASHINGTON – Senior al-Qaida leaders are forging deeper relationships with Pakistani militants and often operating from their camps inside the...
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Haqqani Network’s Reign Of Terror On Afghanistan
The Haqqani Network is a terrorist group that is not as well known as the Taliban or al Qaida. From...
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Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban: “Diametrically Opposed”?
Mullah Omar’s Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda’s senior leaders have been issuing some very mixed messages of late, and the online...
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Strategies For Negotiating With ‘Good’ Taliban
The Obama administration has begun to distinguish between “good” and “bad” Taliban as military commanders in Afghanistan consider negotiating with...
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Seeds of Destruction
By mid-2001, al-Qa’ida training camps in Afghanistan were buzzing with the news that a big operation was under way. Details...
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White Paper Prepared for The Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management: Tradeoffs and Paradoxes: Terrorism, Deterrence and Nuclear Weapons
In August 2009, the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism published “Tradeoffs and Paradoxes: Terrorism, Deterrence and Nuclear Weapons,” an...
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