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Mueller addresses leak in recently foiled AQAP bomb plot
Discussions with foreign intelligence partners are ongoing to minimize fallout after someone leaked information to the media about al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's recently foiled bomb plot, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee May 16.
Declassified letters reveal bin Laden's opinions and strategies
Seventeen declassified documents captured during the raid of Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound were posted online by the Combating Terrorism Center.
Osama bin Laden 'struggled' to exercise minimal influence over affiliates
The framing of an al Qaeda core as an organization in control of regional "affiliates" reflects a conceptual construction by outsiders rather than the messy reality of insiders," analysis authors state.
Al Qaeda diminished, say panelists
Affiliate movements do have ideological overlap and there is connectivity between them and core al Qaeda, said Stephen Tankel, but a sensible path for defeating them lies in a regional approach.
Brennan: Drone strikes legal and ethical
Drone strikes carried out against members of al Qaeda, including U.S. citizens, are legal and ethical, said John Brennan.
Study: State sponsorship, religious ideology, don't correlate to CBRN pursuit
A quantitative study of terrorist organizations that pursue chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons says that state sponsorship and religious ideology aren’t predictors of their likelihood to undertake CBRN attacks.
Rand: Causal factors of disengagement from al Qaeda impossible to discern
What causes a former terrorist to disengage from al Qaeda is still unknown thanks in great part to the difficulty of conducting research with current and former members, says a report by the Rand
Al Qaeda likely to last at least another 15-20 years, says Rand
Al Qaeda's terrorist campaign may last another 15-20 years and perhaps longer if its trajectory matches those of comparable terrorist movements, according to a February Rand report (.pdf). The report
Obama's mandatory military detention waivers
President Obama has taken the letter of a new law requiring the military detention of al Qaeda terrorists caught inside the United States and eviscerated its spirit. Well done. After signing on Dec.
Obama issues waivers to mandatory military detention of al Qaeda terrorists
The White House issued Feb. 28 a presidential policy directive (.pdf) containing broad waivers to a law requiring mandatory military detention of non-citizen al Qaeda terrorists captured inside the
