The takeaway from the Yemeni 'underwear bomber' plot | Karen Greenberg
Counterterror policy since 9/11 has often been ineffective, even illegal. At last, trusted traditional methods are paying offAs the news of this week's intelligence sting against al-Qaida in the...
View ArticleDoctor who helped US in search for Osama Bin Laden jailed for 33 years
Shakil Afridi deserves sentence passed using colonial-era rules for running fake CIA vaccination drive, says Pakistan spy agency For some Americans the Pakistani doctor who worked on a clandestine...
View ArticleUS to press for release of doctor who helped find Bin Laden
State department says there is 'no basis' for Shakil Afridi's 33-year sentence for his part in fake CIA vaccine driveThe US has said it will press for the release of a Pakistani doctor who has been...
View ArticleKathryn Bigelow given information on unit that killed Osama bin Laden
Obama administration under fire for granting access to Hollywood film-makers in apparent violation of official policyThe Obama administration is under fire for granting Hollywood film-makers...
View ArticleJoe Biden: withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan allows military to refocus
Speaking to graduates at West Point, Biden lists Obama administration's achievements and rejects criticism from RomneyTroop drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan has allowed the US to focus on new global...
View ArticleThe CIA's fake vaccination drive has damaged the battle against polio | Heidi...
Calls for an emergency response to polio are not unrelated to the news that Shakil Afridi has been convicted for his part in the CIA plotI was in New York on 11 September 2001, standing near one of the...
View ArticleUS defence secretary Leon Panetta criticises Pakistan for doctor's sentence
On ABC's This Week, Panetta says treatment of doctor who helped track down Bin Laden has weakened US-Pakistan tiesDefence secretary Leon Panetta has upped US criticism of Pakistan's jailing of a doctor...
View ArticlePBS Frontline's 'Al Qaeda in Yemen': join us for a live chat
The Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Frontline's Jamie Doran chatted about their experience in one of the most dangerous al-Qaida strongholdsGuardian reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is no stranger to risky...
View ArticlePakistani doctor was jailed for giving care to militants, not for helping CIA
Shakil Afridi may face separate trial over claims he was involved in fake vaccination drive to help catch Osama bin LadenThe Pakistani doctor who assisted the CIA in its hunt for Osama bin Laden was...
View ArticlePakistani doctor jailed after bin Laden hunt found guilty of Islamist militancy
Pakistan tribal court papers describe CIA aide Shakil Afridi as active supporter of Lashkar-e-IslamThe doctor who angered Pakistan's powerful security agencies by helping the CIA hunt down Osama bin...
View ArticleLeaks on Obama's security record give ammunition to left and right
It has been hard to label the president timid since the killing of Osama bin Laden – but that has come at a costThe drip of revelations from the White House intended to reassure Americans that Barack...
View ArticleBin Laden 'saved his money for jihad'
New al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri says predecessor stinted on luxuries but had herd of sheep ready for slaughter for visitorsOsama bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, stinting on meat...
View ArticleFrom Nobel to new low: Barack Obama's lost global prestige | DD Guttenplan
A poll shows how the US president has disappointed the hopes of many worldwide. Americans, though, have their own issuesWe have a lot of truisms in American politics, and some of them are even true –...
View ArticleManhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter Bergen – review
A detailed survey of Osama bin Laden's demise from the Washington-based journalist who once interviewed him for CNNIt was the most asymmetric conflict in history. The mightiest military power the world...
View ArticleLittle America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv...
This account of America's decade-long adventure in Afghanistan makes for essential readingIn the spring of 2002, the American army arrived in force in Afghanistan. Its main base was at the old airfield...
View ArticleAirport scanning technology is a transparent victory for terrorism
Security devices that invade our privacy are about to take a giant leap forward with a scanner that can tell what you had for breakfast from 50 metres awayEvery time I go through airport security...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden film trailer debuts online
Trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's forthcoming film about the killing of Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, is released onlineThe first trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's forthcoming film about the killing of...
View ArticleUS special ops to launch campaign targeting Obama on Bin Laden raid
Former intelligence operatives plan to scold the president for high-level leaks and for taking credit for Bin Laden killingA group of former US intelligence and special forces operatives is set to...
View ArticleHow the Swift boat veterans stack up against 2012's special ops group
Much like 2004 campaign that helped sink Kerry's campaign, Opsec questions Obama's credentials on Osama Bin Laden raidThe emergence of a group of former special operations soldiers dedicated to running...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden killing book by Seal Team Six member raises eyebrows
No classified information will be betrayed, publisher says, but security aspects and political timing pose questionsA member of the US navy Seal team that killed Osama bin Laden has written a book on...
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