Tag Archives: al Qaeda

Frank Miller’s Geostrategic Theory

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Lee

Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he’d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs, Military Matters | Tagged 1992, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, anti-Americanism, batman, comic books, Dark Knight, fascism, Frank Lovece, Frank Miller, geostrategy, Germany, Give Me Liberty, graphic novel, Hollywood, Holy Terror Batman, illustration, interview, Iran, Iraq war, Islamofascism, Jordan, Kuwait, Middle East, military geography, negative space, neoconservative, Newsday, Pearl Harbor, radio, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, social commentary, Syria, The Spirit, Turkey, Victor Davis Hanson | 17 Comments

A Separate Cause on Gitmo

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Lee

In commenting on Barack Obama’s renewed pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Con Coughlin observes that most of the assembled army of Al Qaeda jihadists currently confined there would likely be released for lack of evidence, if the … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged 9/11, al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Con Coughlin, Coughlin, court system, cynicism, Daily Telegraph, Europe, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, jihadists, President Obama, security risks, Terrorism, terrorists, trial, Western Europe | Leave a comment

Armies of the Obsolete

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Lee

Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner … Continue reading →

Posted in Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology | Tagged 1990s, al Qaeda, cartridge games, CDR, compact discs, Culture, Earth, electronics, energy, engineering, engines, environmental, extraterrestrial civilizations, games, geology, Greeks, human civilization, infrared targeting, laser guided munitions, light guns, media storage, military technology, modernity, oil, petroleum, physics, post-vietnam, resources, Rob Stradling, science, security threats, SEGA, slave labor, Stephen Hawking, Technology, technology transfer, Terrorism, Transportation, West, Yemen | Leave a comment

Terrorist Smack

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Lee

Al Qaeda’s Ayman Al-Zawahri disrespecting Hezbollah on the Lebanon War: “What victory? Retreating 30 miles backwards?”

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged al Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Hezbollah, Lebanon, smack, terrorist | Leave a comment

A Retreating Periphery

Posted on June 1, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda’s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of “Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.” But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Europe, geostrategy, Hindus, India, Iraq, Jammu, Jhelum River, Kashmir, Middle East, Muslim, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, propaganda, religion, Terrorism, Tigris River, United States, war | 2 Comments

Life Imitates the Onion

Posted on April 22, 2008 by ChrisB

9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous’ al Qaeda says – The Onion April 2nd Al-Qaeda accuses Iran of 9/11 lie – BBC April 22nd

Posted in Chris' Page, Foreign affairs, Humor | Tagged 9/11, 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda, conspiracies, life imitates art, the onion, Zawahiri | Leave a comment

AQI’s Last Stand?

Posted on March 25, 2008 by MichaelW

Al Qaeda’s efforts in Iraq have been less than successful over the past year, due in large part to the Anbar Awakening and the related Councils of Concerned Citizens/Sons of Iraq movements, and the support offered those movements by Petraeus’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Notes on the war | Tagged "Darkhorse", al Qaeda, AQI, Blackhawks of 4-6, Iraq, Kurds, Michael Yon, Nineveh Province, Yezidi | 4 Comments

Breaking Terrorism Markets

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Lee

Douglas Farah notes that with the Al Qaeda leadership now dead or in flight from Iraq, we might be on the verge of a replication the experience of the Andean drug wars of the 1980s. In that situation, the death … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 1980s, al Qaeda, Andes, Awakening, cartel, cocaine, decentralization, drug war, Iraq, market, networks, niche, Terrorism | 1 Comment

Inside Al Qaeda’s Crisis in Iraq

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Lee

A Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) member in Arab Jabour, Iraq (photo: DoD) In extraordinary documents confiscated in November by the United States, we get an enemy’s eye view of the Awakening in Iraq, and further confirmation about how debilitating the … Continue reading →

Posted in Military Matters, Notes on the war | Tagged Abu-Tariq, al Qaeda, Anbar, Arab Jabour, Awakening, Baghdad, Diyala, Iraq, terrorists, United States | Leave a comment

A Witness in Mauritania

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Lee

Israel Matzav has a video clip of a report on the Al Qaeda attack on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. You have to lament for the investigation when your eye witness refers to the scene of the attack as … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged al Qaeda, attack, crime, embassy, Israel, Mauritania, Nouakchott, Terrorism, video, youtube, zionist | Leave a comment

A Decisive Battle?

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Lance

I think that may be overstating it, but the Iraqi army is planning a major offensive against the last area where al Qaeda has a significant presence, Mosul and its environs.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged al Qaeda, Iraq, Iraqi Army, Mosul | Leave a comment

Al Qaeda Casualties

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Lee

Here’s an interesting figure from 2007 operations in Iraq: “Military operations against al Qaeda in Iraq resulted in the capture of 8,800 militants, while 2,400 were killed.”

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged al Qaeda, Iraq, militants, Terrorism, war | Leave a comment

Al Qaeda in Thailand?

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Lee

The Thai government may be divided over whether AQ is funding Islamic militants in the south.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged al Qaeda, funding, islam, militants, Terrorism, Thailand | Leave a comment

A Waziristan Awakening?

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Lee

Sunni tribal leaders in Pakistan are organizing militias and some are ready to revolt against Al Qaeda. David Montero at the CSM takes a look at the risks and rewards of applying our successful counterterrorism strategy from Anbar, in Pakistan’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged al Qaeda, Anbar, Counterterrorism, FATA, Iraq, Pakistan, Taliban, Waziristan | Leave a comment

Top Al Qaeda Operative Nabbed In Iraq, and Other Good News

Posted on December 28, 2007 by MichaelW

Bill Roggio has the scoop at Long War Journal: The Iraqi Army claimed to have captured the minister of defense of the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s political front organization. Ahmed Turki Abbas was captured after being wounded in … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war | Tagged Abu Abdullah, Ahmed Turki Abbas, al Qaeda, Awakening Councils, captured, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq, killed, Muhammad Sulayman Shunaythir al-Zubai, war | Leave a comment

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