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With U.S. Help, Yemen Intensifies Assault on Al Qaeda Stronghold
Yemen's government intensified a campaign of air and ground strikes in the south of the country this week in an effort to recapture towns from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and affiliated insurgents.
May 16, 2012
AQ Militant Killed in Yemen At Center of Debate Over Pre-911 Intelligence Sharing
A less well-known part of Fahd al-Quso's saga is that he was also at the center of a debate about whether American intelligence agencies could have prevented 9/11.
May 7, 2012
Why the Arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Matters
Tomorrow, the self-confessed 9/11 mastermind is set to face terrorism and murder charges at a military court at Guantanamo. We asked an expert to give us some insights into what the proceedings might yield.
May 4, 2012
U.S. Offers Up to $10 Million Reward for Alleged Mumbai Mastermind
The day after the U.S. announced up to a $10 million reward "for information leading up to the arrest and conviction of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed," the suspected mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks brazenly took to the media to defend himself.
April 3, 2012
Docs Reveal FBI Used Muslim Outreach As Guise to Collect Intel
For at least four years, federal agents used Muslim community outreach meetings at mosques in Northern California as a guise to collect intelligence and catalog the identities, personal information, religious views and travel of religious leaders and congregants, FBI documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed yesterday.
March 28, 2012
The Covert Convert Behind the CIA's Drone Program
"He presides over a campaign that has killed thousands of Islamist militants and angered millions of Muslims," wrote The Washington Post's Gregg Miller, in a rare profile of the head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC). "But he is himself a convert to Islam."
March 26, 2012
New Counterterrorism Guidelines Allow U.S. to Hold Americans' Data Longer
Signed yesterday, the new rules will allow the government to hold data on U.S. citizens who are not suspected of terrorist activity for 10 times longer than before.
March 23, 2012
Study Suggests Majority of Those Killed in Pakistan Drone Strikes Are Militants
A nearly-six-month-long investigation published by the Associated Press on Friday tracks with earlier studies that found 70 to 80 percent of those killed in CIA drone strikes in Pakistan are militants.
February 27, 2012
Pakistan Spy Chief's Term Set to Expire Amidst Shaky Relations with U.S.
There's no shortage of thorny issues currently facing Pakistan's intelligence chief -- and Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha's term as director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is set to expire on March 18.
February 24, 2012
New Study Asserts Drone Strikes in Pakistan Target Rescuers, Funerals
CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed "dozens of civilians" who had gone to help rescue victims of drone strikes or were attending funerals for the victims of previous strikes, a new report by British and Pakistani journalists asserts.
February 6, 2012
NYPD Eyed Shia Muslims Based on Religion
News that the NYPD recommended increasing the surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on religion, is the latest report in the AP’s ongoing investigation into the department’s controversial intelligence unit and its questionable tactics.
February 3, 2012