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americanprogress.org - 3/5/2009

Threats, Options, and Risks in Pakistan

— americanprogress.org — By Colin Cookman | March 5, 2009 See also: Interactive Map: U.S. Airstrikes in Pakistan on the... Rise Read also: Partnership for Progress On March 1, two missiles from a remote-piloted American aircraft struck a camp in the Sararogha region of South ... (more) Threats, Options, and Risks in Pakistan

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littlegreenfootballs.com - 3/7/2009

National Intelligence Council Nominee: 'What 9/11 Showed is That If We Bomb People, They Bomb Back'

— littlegreenfootballs.com — US News | Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:26:55 am PST Martin Kramer has a post today... on the Obama administration s nominee to head the National Intelligence Council Saudi puppet Chas Freeman: Chas Freeman and 9/11 . How important has resentment of Israel been ... (more) National Intelligence Council Nominee: 'What 9/11 Showed ...

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counterterrorismblog.org - 3/10/2009

The Economic Crisis: Al Qaeda's Response

— counterterrorismblog.org — The Washington Institute just published a piece by Richard Barrett, the head of the monitoring team for... the UN's 1267 al Qaeda/Taliban Committee. Richard's piece discusses how al Qaeda has responded to -- and tried to take advantage of -- the global ... (more) The Economic Crisis: Al Qaeda's Response

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Heartache: Financial Crisis Hits al Qaeda Hardest
The Jawa Report — March 09, 2009 Heartache: Financial Crisis Hits al Qaeda Hardest bomb_4_food.jpg Sure your 401k is worth half of what it was last year, but look on the bright side: Ayman al-Zawahiri will work for food : Al-Qaeda leaders, unlike their Taliban hosts who are heavily involved in the lucrative drug trade, do not currently have significant financial resources. (Their current financial state contrasts sharply with the situation before the September 11 attacks, when the annual al-Qaeda budget was between $20 and 30 million a year, of which several million went to the Taliban.) The ...

Public Enemy Number One: al-Qaeda, Bad Banks, or Both?
Firedoglake — ... , over at the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs, Richard Barrett, the United Nations' point person for monitoring Al Qaeda and Taliban finances, has a short and interesting overview of the nexus between Al Qaeda and economic disaster. He says that Al Qaeda wants to claim credit for it. Were Bernie Madoff or AIG actually sleeper agents? ...

Al-Qaeda: We caused the global financial crisis
Jihad Watch — ... here -- it is much likelier that Al-Qaeda has shifted its emphasis away from terror attacks and more toward stealth jihad efforts. In any case, the claim -- however inflated -- that Al-Qaeda caused the global financial crisis is noteworthy on a number of levels: there is the will to deceive and terrify the enemy, as well as a possible signal that more economically-oriented attacks will be in the offing. "The Economic Crisis: Al-Qaeda's Response," by Richard Barrett for Policy Watch, March 9 (thanks to David): The deepening global ...