U.S. intelligence officials believe al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is now the most significant terrorist threat to the United States, and analysts say the Yemen-based organization is benefiting from the violence and turmoil in that country.A Al-Qaid…
“If the organization is seeking to attack us, it’s actively seeking to attack us, and it will try to attack us this year,” said Katherine Zimmerman, the study’s co-author and analyst at the American Enterprise Institute at a panel discussion in Washing…
Osama bin Laden’s demise struck a significant blow to the global terrorist movement he spearheaded two decades years ago, but not a mortal one, US officials said yesterday, warning of potential retaliatory attacks as well as the rise of new leaders.
Osama bin Laden’s demise struck a significant blow to the global terrorist movement he spearheaded two decades years ago, but not a mortal one, US officials said yesterday, warning of potential retaliatory attacks as well as the rise of new leaders.
By Mary Beth Sheridan and and Anne Kornblut, Former vice president Richard B. Cheney has been a harsh critic of the Obama administration’s actions against terrorism, accusing the White House last year of being “slow” to “come to the recognition that we…
By Mary Beth Sheridan and and Anne E. Kornblut, Former vice president Richard B. Cheney has been a harsh critic of the Obama administration’s actions against terrorism, accusing the White House last year of being “slow” to “come to the recognition that…
I have not been one of those castigating President Obama for decreasing American power-either deliberately or inadvertently.
In May 21, 2009 file photos President Barack Obama, left, delivers an address on national security, terrorism, and the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison, Thursday, May 21, 2009, at the National Archives in Washington.
Addressing the current threat from al Qaeda at a recent forum in New York, the Deputy Special Assistant to President Bush and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism warned that the United States’ military reaction to the threat…
August 23, 2010 5:30 P.M. The Obama administration’s strategy to combat one of the most dangerous al-Qaeda franchises in the world, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula , revolves around the trust it has put in the Yemeni government to kill or capture AQA…