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thesmokinggun.com - 1/14/2009

Torture, Al-Qaeda Style - May 24, 2007

— thesmokinggun.com — Drawings, tools seized from Iraq safe house in U.S. military raid MAY 24--In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and ... (more) Torture, Al-Qaeda Style - May 24, 2007

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news.bbc.co.uk - 1/9/2009

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan al-Qaeda leaders 'dead'

— news.bbc.co.uk — Aftermath of the blast at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, on 20 September 2008 (more) BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan al-Qaeda leaders 'dead'

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washingtonpost.com - 1/9/2009

Jan. 1 Attack By CIA Killed Two Leaders Of Al-Qaeda

— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Jan. 1 Attack By CIA Killed Two Leaders Of Al-Qaeda

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Be Careful What You Wish For
Newshoggers.com — ... of food and medicine seeking to enter Gaza, and by Israel's most recent military incursion, Israel and the US may be doing just that.  With al-Qaeda increasingly turning its eyes to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as the next battle with which to rally its forces around, the timing could not be worse.  Matt Duss again: ...

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Hit & Run — The Gaza war has one clear beneficiary, writes Marc Lynch: Ayman al-Zawahiri has finally weighed in on behalf of al-Qaeda over the Gaza crisis, calling it part of the West's war on Islam and calling on Muslims everywhere to attack Western and Israeli targets. He sounds about as happy as I can remember hearing him of late. He probably can't believe his luck. Israel's assault on Gaza has really created an almost unbelievable no-lose situation for al-Qaeda. If Hamas "wins", then al-Qaeda gets to share in the benefits of the political losses incurred by its Western and Arab enemies (Zawahiri mentions Mubarak and the Saudis in this tape, but not the ...

Be Careful What You Wish For
Obsidian Wings — by Eric Martin Marc Lynch, writing at his fancy new digs, passes along this disturbing account of a lecture he attended given by Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor: It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because if Ambassador Meridor is taken at his word, then Israel has no strategy in Gaza. Asked three times ...