Topic: Al Qaeda
Since September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration has engaged in a host of controversial counterterrorism actions that threaten civil liberties and even the physical safety of those targeted: To justify otherwise unlawful policies, President Bush and his lawyers have espoused an extreme ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday threw her support behind Somalia's embattled president and warned Eritrea to stop sponsoring Al-Qaeda inspired insurgents turning the country into a terror hub.Clinton held the highest-level US meeting yet with Somali President Sharif Sheikh ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Bush administration debated testing the U.S. Constitution by sending troops into the suburbs of Buffalo, New York to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with al Qaeda, The New York Times reported on Friday.Some of ...
New disclosures suggest secret CIA program borne of rash decision-making More information is being learned about a CIA program created after 9/11 that was kept hidden from Congress until last month when the agencys director, Leon Panetta, first learned of it and ...
Panetta canceled CIA effort to find, kill al-Qaida leaders up closeA secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range rather than target them with air ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said U.S. President Barack Obama had planted the seeds of " revenge and hatred" toward the United States in the Muslim world and warned Americans to prepare for the consequences.Bin Laden's remarks were ...
Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has issued a new audiotape in which he takes aim at Barack Obama's policy towards the Islamic world, Al-Jazeera television announced shortly after the US president arrived in Saudi Arabia. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition
Former FBI interrogator of al-Qaida leader says harsh methods didn't workA former FBI interrogator who questioned al-Qaida prisoners testified Wednesday that the Bush administration falsely boasted of success from extreme techniques like waterboarding, when those methods were slow, unreliable and made an ...
Detainee at Guantanamo Bay to be released when a country can be found to take himThe Obama administration has agreed to release another Guantanamo detainee, but officials aren't saying yet where he'll go.The Justice Department and lawyers for 38-year-old Aymen Saeed Batarfi ...
The US Supreme Court Friday dismissed a constitutional challenge brought by alleged Al-Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri as to whether " enemy combatants" can be held indefinitely on US soil.The case involves Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, an alleged Al-Qaeda sleeper agent who ...
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