Posts Tagged: Osama Bin Laden
Ayman Zawahiri and Egypt: A Trip Through Time
Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return. From his early beginnings as a teenage leader of...
Inside Israel’s Hunt for Arch Terrorists: How Shin Bet Always Gets Its Man
The operation to track down and eliminate the the arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden was a well- planned and ultimately well- executed American intelligence operation- one of...
Presidential Decisions – Right and Wrong
US Presidents make a lot of decisions, and, not surprisingly, a lot of mistakes. In this, it does not matter if you are a...
Moments of truth: Osama vs. Obama
In a first reaction to the violent assaults on the American embassies in Egypt and Libya on this year's anniversary of 9/11, Marc Lynch prefaced...
CAIR’s Next Generation Radical
Zahra Billoo may be one of the more refreshing new faces among Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials. Rather than following her organization's habit of engaging...
Rewarding Moments: Prizeworthy vs. Praiseworthy
Awards and prizes appear to be the ultimate credential, from the Oscar to the Grammy. But in complex matters—foreign policy, national security, terrorism—the...
Pakistan Jails Doctor for Helping U.S. Find Bin Laden
Senior U.S. officials including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have called for the release of Shakil Afridi, saying his work served both Pakistani and...
Brotherhood Too Tame for Egyptian Presidential Runner-up Contender
Editors note: This article was written prior to recently enacted Egyptian laws banning the candidacy of some of the individuals mentioned in this article. It's the...
9/11, The Furor Against Individualism and the Rumor About Israel
Not only Osama Bin Laden, and those secretly or openly sympathizing with him, longed to bring about the destruction of New York. Albert Speer, Hitler´s...
Ron Paul, Neoconservatism and Islamophobia, Plus a Thought Experiment
Supporters and opponents of Ron Paul's foreign policy make a number of arguments, some good, some bad, and some, frankly, mad. Since I'm...
The UN Mourns the Death of Kim Jong-Il
The decision by the United Nations to lower their flags to half-mast for the death of Kim Jong Il is a vulgar and...
Anwar Al-Awlaki and the US’s Long War On Al-Qaida
The well-deserved death of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen continues a string of recent battlefield losses for al-Qaida, the most notable being Osama bin Laden at...
Brute Causes, Not Root Causes
As with other earth-shattering events, the moment and place of learning the dread news of September 11, 2001 is etched into everyone's memory. Equally well...
The Innocents Abroad
Barack Obama's flawed worldview and the incoherent foreign policy flowing from it have now disintegrated. Within the past few months, his media acolytes notwithstanding, the...
