Two factors drove al-Qaida external operations after the 2005 London bombings. First was the need and ability to outwit international security services in order to recreate and expand upon the … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – Transatlantic Conspiracy
A readjusted al-Qaida, expanding into Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, was in late 2004 into 2005, faced with an undulating series of success and failure, challenges and critical advancements. Corresponding … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – Apprehension and Escape
With Hassan Ghul captured in early 2004, the intrinsic bond of the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies may have been imperiled, but Ghul’s interrogation displayed the organizations’ adamant intent on merging, … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – Mesopotamian Expansion
With an impending American presidential election in 2004, al-Qaida, the pre-eminent enemy of the Bush Administration, could ill-afford to be relegated to obscurity or forgotten. Having established and discussed the … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – Threat To An Election
In late 2003, the collective American conscious disregarded the war in Afghanistan and observed with intense focus the happenings of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as well as the militant determined to … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – A Lion Emerges
The captures of Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and his nephew Ammar al-Baluchi thoroughly disrupted the current and potential mechanics of al-Qaida external operations. Now the two represented an abundant wealth of … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – Parrying The Pakistanis
After the debacle of Damodola, it seemed unlikely that the US would engage in another unilateral airstrike operation in the populated regions of the FATA in sovereign Pakistan. Thus far … Continue reading SERIES: Predators Of The Khorasan – Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah
Khalid Sheikh Mohamed struggled to maintain an al-Qaida momentum in 2002, yet still had well placed assets both local and beyond. His subordinates the Rabbani brothers, continued to manage safehouses … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – The Perfume Letter Plot and Failaka Island
Having examined the state of al-Qaida internal management in the immediate aftermath of the US invasion into their haven and stronghold of Afghanistan, we must shift to the jihadist network’s … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – External Structure Under KSM
In order to chronicle the initial CIA drone strikes in Pakistan during the early aughts in a separate series, Predators of the Khorasan, it is imperative that we examine and … Continue reading SERIES: Dark Years Of Al-Qaida – Internal Structure Post-2001
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